30.2 Hiphil tip: Think “hIphil-hAphil”

  • Preformatives
    • Hiphil verbs have preformative ה
    • Imperfects and Participles have the usual preformatives
  • \(V_P\)
    • Remember “Hiphil-Haphil” (like “Piel-Pael”)
    • \(V_P = I\) in the PERFECT (“Hiphil”)
    • \(V_P = A\) EVERYWHERE ELSE (“Haphil”)
  • \(V_1 = :\)
  • \(Pre\) combinations are:
    • הִקְ - HP
    • יַקְ - HI, and so forth for the other Imperfect forms, inclidng HI1cs
    • הַקְ - HM/H∞/HA
    • מַקְ - Pt
  • In most cases, the “Hiphil-Haphil” mnemonic is sufficient to identify the Hiphil stem
  • Exceptions are when \(R_1\) is a weak consonant - we will study these scenarios in Lesson 31