26.2 Piel Meanings

Traditionally, Piel has been described as “active/intensive”; however recent scholarship is calling that into question

• Cause a state (‘factitive’)
  • מִלֵּא
    • Q - He filled
    • D (Piel) - He caused (something) to be full
• Do something repeatedly (‘iterative’)
  • הָלַךְ
    • Q - He walked
    • D - He walked around
• Declarative - he declared (someone) innocent
• Denominative (a verb made from a noun) - He acted as a priest (כִּהֵן from כֹּהֵן “priest”)
• Intensive?
  • שִׁבֵּר
    • Q - He broke
    • D - He smashed
      • This is debated among Hebrew scholars
      • Perhaps he caused it to be in a state of brokenness?
      • Perhaps he broke it repeatedly?