Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar/Page 118b
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As the formation of the strong verb is the model also for the weak verb, a statement of the general formative laws should precede the treatment of special cases.
Paradigm B, together with the Table of the personal preformatives and afformatives given in § 40 c, offers a complete survey of the normal forms. A full explanation of them is given in the following sections (§§ 43–55), where each point is elucidated on its first occurrence; thus e.g. the inflexion of the Perfect, the Imperfect and its modifications, will be found under Qal, &c.
a The common form of the 3rd sing. masc. of the Perfect Qal is קָטַל, with ă (Pathaḥ) in the second syllable, especially in transitive verbs (but see § 44 c). There is also a form with ē (Ṣere, originally ı̆), and another with ō (Ḥolem, originally ŭ) in the second syllable, both of which, however, have almost always an intransitive[1] meaning,
- ↑ But cf. such instances as Jer 485. In Arabic also, transitive verbs are found with middle ı̆, corresponding to Hebrew verbs with ē in the second syllable. Hence P. Haupt (Proc. Amer. Or. Soc., 1894, p. ci f.) prefers to distinguish them as verba voluntaria (actions which depend on the will of the subject) and involuntaria (actions or states independent of the will of the subject).
