03-20-2010, 05:15 PM
Thanks for the reply lebaryo,
Yes, that is what I found as well when doing some research on it. Although even the Hebrew grammar book that I looked at considered "intensive" to be just one of numerous aspects.
"The piel stem is the most difficult to define ... can convey a variety of connotations ... no single category is an adequate description ...." They did however use "intensive" as their default connotation.
One thing that I have experimented with is thinking of pael as a resultant condition of peal. In your example, "destroy" would be a resultant condition of "to break". Or "break so-as-to destroy". But it is just something that I have toyed around with for now.
Best regards
Yes, that is what I found as well when doing some research on it. Although even the Hebrew grammar book that I looked at considered "intensive" to be just one of numerous aspects.
"The piel stem is the most difficult to define ... can convey a variety of connotations ... no single category is an adequate description ...." They did however use "intensive" as their default connotation.
One thing that I have experimented with is thinking of pael as a resultant condition of peal. In your example, "destroy" would be a resultant condition of "to break". Or "break so-as-to destroy". But it is just something that I have toyed around with for now.
Best regards