An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax

5.
6.
7.
ת ֶב ֶכֹשׁ ֫ ה ָשּׁ אִ
ה ֵנּהִ וְ
׃ויתלֹ ָ גְּ רְ ַמ
Ps 5:5
And behold, a woman lying at his feet!
Ruth 3:8
םִימ ַ֫
ָשּׁ ה ַ ע ַמ ְשׁ תִּ התָּ אַ וְ
Then hear [O God] from (i.e., in) heaven. 16
1 Kgs 8:32
םוֹק ָמ ךְיבִ א־תי ָ בֵּ שֵׁיהֲ Is there room in your father’s house?
Gen 24:23
The goal of movement (or directed activity) toward is usually marked with a
preposition but may stand as an accusative of place.
8.
9. ן ַענ ַ֫
ְכּ ץרֶ ֶ֫
֫
10.
11.
הדֶ ָשּׂ הַ א ֵצוְ Go out to the open country.
Gen 27:3
א וּאֹבָ יּוַ And they came to the land of Canaan.
Gen 45:25
׃אוֹבָ י הוהי ר ַצוֹא It must come into YHWH’s treasury.
Josh 6:19
By analogy, the accusative is also used for the place from which one departs. 17
רי ִעה־ת ָ א ֶ וּא ְצֽ יָ םהֵ They having left the city…
Gen 44:4
The constructions with local accusative (## 12, 14) and directive -āh (## 12,
13) are sometimes interchangeable.
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12.
13.
דגֻּיּ ַ וַ
... התָ ַגּ ֫ ךְ ֶל ֵיּ֫ וַ
ךְ ַלה־י ָ ִכּ הֹמלֹ ֑ ְשׁ ִל
ת ַגּ ... י ִע ְמ ִשׁ
יתִ ָבי ֵשׂ־תאֶ םתֶּ דְ רוֹה ַ וְ
׃ה ָלוֹנ֫ ְשׁ ןוֹגָיבְּ
14. וֹת ָבי ֵשׂ־תאֶ ָ
תּדְ רוֹה ַ וְ
׃לוֹא ְשׁ םדָ בְּ
And he (Shimei) went to Gath…and it was told
to Solomon that Shimei had gone…to Gath.
1 Kgs 2:40–41
You will bring my gray head down to Sheol in
sorrow.
Gen 42:38
You will bring his gray head down to Sheol in
blood.
16 So also in 1 Kgs 8:34, 36, 39, 43, 45, 49. in the parallel text in 2 Chronicles 6, mn is
supplied (vv 23, 25, 30, 33, 35, 39; v 27 lacks mn and thus agrees with Kings). See
11.2.11 b.
17 For other examples, see Exod 9:29, 33; Deut 14:22, cf. Jer 10:20.