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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Neither is preterite, present, future or jussive. They are both imperative. Kon'nah is imperative with the -ah ending that is occasionally in both the future and imperative. Kon'nehu is imperative with the third person
masculine singular ending ("establish it").<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, December 17, 2017 12:27 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Mesorah] Kon'nah, Kon'nehu, Jussive</font>
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<div class="PlainText">I need help understanding the pasuk "Veehee Noam", particularly the<br>
words Kon'nah and Kon'nehu.<br>
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My guess is that Kon'nehu is actually a compound word, made up of a<br>
verb and an object. But I am not good at separating the two. It might<br>
be Kon'nah with either Oto or Otam, but I really don't know.<br>
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Kon'nah might also be a compound, or it might be just a verb. My verb<br>
lists show it in two places, but spelled exactly the same: as the Avar<br>
(Perfect), in the 3nd person feminine, of either Piel or Pual. But if<br>
so, what is the feminine subject of the pasuk? Noam is masculine.<br>
Maaseh y'deinu is masculine (I think). Could it refer to an<br>
unmentioned Shechina?<br>
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Also, the Avar surprises me. EVERY translation I've seen puts this<br>
pasuk as a request for the future. I don't see any Vav Hahipuch. Is<br>
the Avar/Perfect used poetically to refer to the future?<br>
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Someone suggested to me that both of these verbs might be in the<br>
jussive form. My understanding of "Jussive" is that its not really a<br>
verb form of its own, but that we use it to describe situations where<br>
the Future Tense is actually a request or command, not as a statement<br>
of future facts. This abounds when mitzvos are commanded; the pasuk<br>
sometimes uses the Tzivuy form to command and order us, but sometimes<br>
(to be gentle?) it uses the Atid/Future(Imperfect) and that's what we<br>
call Jussive.<br>
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Am I close? Or is the Hebrew Jussive found in actual spelling<br>
differences beyond the seven Binyanim that I was taught? Or maybe I'm<br>
wrong about connecting Jussive to the future tense, and it can be done<br>
with the past also?<br>
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My apologies for hoping that there's a simple answer to this. It<br>
probably needs a really long answer, and one that's waaay over my<br>
head. But whatever answers you can give will be be appreciated.<br>
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Akiva Miller<br>
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