An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax

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60.
61.
ךָוֹ ֑מ ֫ ָכּ ךָ ֲערֵ ְל תָּ ְבהַ אָ ְ
םיבּ֑ ִ רַ ָל many righteous.
Isa 53:11
ו You shall love your neighbor as (you do) yourself.
Lev 19:18
רי ִע ָל תחֵ ַשׁ ְל to destroy the city
ךְ ֶל ֶמּ ֫ ל ַ ע ַלּבְ ֻ י ן ֶ
1 Sam 23:10
פּ lest the king be swallowed up 88
2 Sam 17:16
h An apposition can be marked with l, be it subject (# 62), 89 object (# 63), or
prepositional object (# 64).
62. בל ֵ לרֶ ֶע ֫ ר ָכ ֵנ־ן ֶבּ־ל ָכּ
אוֹבָ י אֹ ל ר ָשׂ ָבּ לרֶ ֶע֫ וְ
ישׁ֑ ִ דָּ ְק ִמ־לאֶ ר ֶשׁ א ֲ ר ָכ ֵנ־ן ֶבּ־ל ָכל ְ
׃לאֵ רָ ְשִׂי ינֵ ְבּ ךְוֹת ְבּ
63. תאַ ְמ טֻ בּ ְ עגִּי ַ י ִכ וֹא
ר ֶשׁ א ֲ וֹתאָ ְמ ט ֻ לֹכל ְ םדָ אָ
וּנּ ֶמּ ֫ ִמ םלַ ְענ ֶ ו ְ הּבּ ֑ ָ א ָמ טִי ְ
׃ם ֵשׁ אָ
ו ְ עדָי ַ אוּהוְ 64. םוֹיּה ַ ךָיתִּ ֫ תַ ְנ ה ֵנּה ִ ינִ אֲ וַ
. . . ר ָצ ְב ִמ רי ִע ְל
י ֵכל ְ ַמ ל ְ ץרֶ א֑ ָ֫
ה־ל ָ ָכּ־ל
ַע
הי ָ נֶ֫ הֹכ ֲ ל ְ הי ָ ר֫ ֶ ָשׂ ְל הדוּהְי ָ
׃ץרֶ א֫ ָ ה ָ ם ַע ְלוּ
Not one foreigner, be he uncircumcised of heart or
uncircumcised of flesh (that is, not one foreigner who
is in the midst of the Israelites) shall enter my temple.
Ezek 44:9
Or if anyone touches a human uncleanness, that is, any
uncleanness by which he might be rendered unclean,
and he does so without knowing—when he learns, he
is guilty. 90
Lev 5:3
Today I am appointing you a fortified city…over the
whole land, that is, the kings of Judah, its princes, its
priests, and the ordinary people. 91
Jer 1:18
i In conclusion we turn to the so-called emphatic lamed. 92 This particle must be
distinguished first of all from the independent hypothetical particle lû (written וּל,
88
See also 10.4c and n. 43 there; for a contrasting view see P. Kyle McCarter, II
Samuel (Anchor Bible 9; Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1984) 388.
89
See also Ezra 1:5.
90
See also Lev 5:4.
91
But W. L. Holladay deletes the phrase with ˓l and leaves the l phrases; see Jeremiah
(Hermeneia; Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986), 1. 23.