An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax

25. י ִכבְ ִבּ ה ֶכּבְ א ֶ ן ֵכּ־ל ַע
רזֵ ְעַי
26. םוּרא ָ ׃ץרֶ א֫ ָ ָבּ םוּראָ םִיוֹגּ ַבּ
27. . . . םהָ רָ ְבא־ל ַ א ֶ ארָ אֵ וָ
ידּ֑ ָ ַשׁ לאֵ ְבּ
28.
29. ה ָשּׁ מִ חֲ ַבּ תיחִ ְשׁ תַ הֲ
ריע֑ ִ ה־ל ָ ָכּ־תאֶ Gen 7:21
Thus I weep like Jazer (lit., in the weeping of Jazer).
Isa 16:9
I am exalted among the nations, I am exalted in the
earth.
Ps 46:11
I appeared to Abraham…as El Shaddai.
Exod 6:3
יר֑ ָזֹע
ְ בּ ְ י ִל הוהי YHWH is with me, (serving as) my Helper.
Ps 118:7
Will you destroy the whole city because/on account of
five?
Gen 18:28
f A group of more strictly grammatical relations remain. In noun phrases, b can mark a
distributive (# 30) or a partitive (# 31). 35 The preposition b marks the object of a[Page
199] variety of verbs (see 10.2.1); these include verbs of extending, touching;
fastening (on; # 32), striking (at), reaching (to), filling (with); of exercising authority
over (# 33); of sense perception (especially seeing; # 34) and of emotion (notably
trust; # 35); and of speaking (# 36).
30.
םוֹיבּ ְ םוֹי day by day
31.
32.
33.
34.
׃םהי ֶ מֵּ ַענ ְ ַמ ְבּ םחַ ְלא־ל ֶ ַ
וֹ ֑ב־וּח ְל ְשׁ תּ־ל ִ א ַ דָי ְ
וּנבּ ֑֫ ָ לֹשׁמְ תּ ִ לוֹשׁ ָ
הוהי ןוֹראֲ ַבּ וּא ָ
2 Chr 30:21
בוּ And let me not eat (some) of their dainties. 36
Ps 141:4
ו But you shall not lay a hand on him.
Gen 37:22
מ Will you indeed rule over us?
Gen 37:8
ר They looked on the ark of YHWH.
1 Sam 6:19
35 The b in 2 Sam 6:6 may be partitive: wy˒ḥz bw ‘and he grabbed part of it; in 1 Chr
13:9 we read wys̆lḥ ˓zh ˒t-ydw l˒ḥz ˒t-h˒rwn, ‘Uzza extended his hand to grab the ark,’
viz., to take hold of it. It is not clear to what extent the versions contrast.
36 See Pardee, UF 9: 216.