B-Hebrew: The Biblical Hebrew Forum

As an adjective, is בטמא singular or plural, masculine or femenine?

(And would it have any tense, or aspect, like complete or incomplete?)

MGWB wrote:As an adjective, is בטמא singular or plural, masculine or femenine?

Where is this found as an adjective?

Everywhere that I’ve found, it’s a prefixed ב on what would probably be a gerund in English.

MGWB wrote:(And would it have any tense, or aspect, like complete or incomplete?)

If it is an adjective, it would have neither tense nor aspect, as those are properties of verbs, not adjectives.

If it is a verb, Biblical Hebrew verbs didn’t have tense, as shown also by Dr. Rolf Furuli’s dissertation. Nor do they have aspect (another measure of time) which can be demonstrated, rather the conjugations seem partially modal, and partially ???

Karl W. Randolph.