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The Passive Perfect גֲלִי in Biblical Aramaic

אֱדַ֗יִן לְדָנִיֵּ֛אל בְּחֶזְוָ֥א דִֽי־לֵילְיָ֖א רָזָ֣ה גֲלִ֑י אֱדַ֨יִן֙ דָּֽנִיֵּ֔אל בָּרִ֖ךְ לֶאֱלָ֥הּ שְׁמַיָּֽא׃ (Daniel 2:19) Then to Daniel in a vision of the night the mystery was revealed; then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. In Daniel 2:19, the verb גֲלִי (“was revealed”) appears in the peʿil stem, the passive counterpart to the peʿal. This form provides a textbook example of how… Read the rest
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