An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax

2 Chr 24:6
[Page 144] d An agent or author is animate; the inanimate analogue to the agent
role is that of instrument. A genitive of instrument involves the relationship G is
the instrument of C. (See 9.5.2d.)
9.
10.
11.
אֹ לו ְ ברֶ ח־י ֶ֫ ֵל ְלחַ אֹ ל
׃ה ָמ חָ ְל ִמ יתֵ ֵמ
not slain by the sword nor dead through war
Isa 22:2
שׁיטּ ַפּ קי ִלחֲ ַמ he who polishes with a hammer
Isa 41:7
שׁא ֑ ֵ תוֹפרֻ ְשׂ ם ֶכירֵ ָע your cities are burned with fire
ֶ ֫ ְ
12. שׁפ ֶנ־א ֵמ ט
Isa 1:7
impure by (reason of contact with) a corpse
Lev 22:4
e A subjective genitive may involve neither agent nor instrument, but rather a
motivation or intention. In an abstract subjective genitive G denotes a verbal
action affecting C. (The phrase ה ָמ חָ ְל ִמ יתֵ ֵמ in # 9 may belong here.)
13. ימִ רְ ח־שׁי ֶ א־ת ִ א ֶ תָּ חְ
֫
14.
ַלּ ִשׁ
ד֑יָּמִ You have set free the man I had determined should
die (lit., man of my devoting to a consecrated
death).
1 Kgs 20:42
וּנּוּ֑ ֫ ֶ ַצא ֲ יתִ רָ ְב ֶע ם ַע־ל ַעוְ I dispatch them against a people who incur my
15. ׃החָ ְב ִ ֫
16.
wrath (lit., a people of my wrath).
Isa 10:6
ט ןאֹ צ ְכּ וּנ ְב ַשׁ חְ ֶנ We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered (lit.,
as sheep of slaughtering).
Ps 44:23
׃ם ָצ ְפ ח ֶ זוֹח ְמ־לאֶ םחֵ ְנַיּ וַ
And he guided them to their desired haven (lit., to
the port of their desiring).
Ps 107:30
ַ֫
ַ֫
ִ ַ ַ ֽ ֶ ֶ֫
The sense of the abstract may be passive, in which case G is affected by C.
17. ךְִיתֹד ְלֹמוּ ךְִיתֹרֹכ
ְמ Your ancestry and your birth were from the land of
י֑ נ ֲענ ְכּה ץרא ֵמ Canaan.
Ezek 16:3