An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax

25.
26.
Mal 3:24
ץח ֵ םיהלֹ ִ אֱ םרֹיּ ֵ וַ
God shoots at them | with arrows.
...
םיהלֹ ִ אֱ
ךָחֲ ָשׁ מְ
ן ֶמ ֶשׁ ֫
Ps 64:8
God anointed you…| with oil.
Ps 45:8
With verbs of planting, the direct object is the area planted and the means is
the crop.
27. ק ֵ ֫
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28.
רֹשׂ וּה ֵעטִּיּ ָ וַ
He planted it | with choice vines.
Isa 5:2
׃ח ַל ֶמ ֫ הָ ֶע֫ רָ זִיּ ְ וַ
He sowed it | with salt.
Judg 9:45
e The double accusatives used with Piel-Hiphil verbs follow similar patterns (24.1,
27.1). In a number of cases, the accusatives involve the object of the causation
predicate, the person acted on (by the primary subject) + the object of the other
verbal predicate, the object acted on (by the undersubject, the person acted on).
29. ן ָמּ ה־ת ַ ֶ ךָ ְלכִֽ אַיּ ֲ וַ
30.
א He fed you | manna (lit., he caused you to eat
manna).
Deut 8:3
םִימ־ט ַ֫
ַע ְמ אנ־י ָ ני ִ ִק ְשׁ הַ
Give me | a little water to drink. 23
ֶ ָ֫
ְ ֶ
31. וֹדֹב ְכּ־תא ... וּנארה
Judg 4:19
He showed us…his glory.
ִ ָ ֶ ֶ֫
ְ ַ ְ
32. שׁיאה־תא ָךּאראו
Deut 5:21
I will show you | the man.
33. רב֑ ָ דּ ָ ם ֶכתְ ֶ ִ֫
Judg 4:22
א ה ָעידוֹנוְ And we’ll teach you | a lesson.
1 Sam 14:12
23 The English verbs ‘to feed’ and ‘to wafer’ have interesting distributional differences
from the corresponding Hebrew verbs; in English, the latter is used only of animals,
while the former can be used of humans, but only with an intimation of
condescension.