An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax

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46.
48.
ידֵ בְ ַע לֹכּ ִמ דוִ דּ ָ ל ַכ ָשׂ
לוּא ָשׁ
1 Sam 18:30
Phrases with לכמ may also follow stative verbs.
47. לֹכּ ִמ בלֵּ ַ
ם ָעה־ל ָ ָכּ ִמ הּ ַבּ ְגִיּ ַ
David met with more success than all the rest of
Saul’s officers.
ה בֹק ָע The heart is most deceitful of all things.
Jer 17:9
ו He was found to be the tallest of all the people.
1 Sam 10:23
e Finally, a comparative superlative may use abstract terms of quality, with a suffix (#
49) or a definite genitive (## 50–53).
49. קדֶ חֵ֫ ְכּ ם ָבוֹט The best of them is like a briar.
50.
51.
52.
53.
Mic 7:4
םִי ר֫ ַ ְצ ִמ ץרֶ א ֶ֫
בוּט the best of the land of Egypt
Gen 45:18
וי ָשׁ ִל ָשׁ רחַ ְב ִמ his (Pharaoh’s) picked officers
ק ֵל ָמ ֲע םִיוֹגּ תי ִשׁא ֵ
םִיוֹגּה ַ תי ִשׁא ֵ
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Cardinals
2.1 Cardinal ‘One,’ ‘Two’
2.2 Cardinal ‘Three-Ten’
2.3 Cardinal ‘Eleven-Nineteen’
2.4 Cardinal Decimals
2.5 Higher Cardinals
2.6 Determination and Cardinals
15.3 Ordinals
3.1 Patterns
3.2 Dates
15.4 Multiplicatives
15.5 Fractions
Exod 15:4
ר Amaleq is a foremost nation. 30
Num 24:20
ר the foremost nation
Amos 6:1
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30 The article is often omitted in verse (13.7), though it is probably omitted here
because the poet seeks to classify Amaleq rather than to identify it (see 8.4.2). Note
further that the article is used in the next example, also in verse. On rē˒šît, see M.
Greenberg, Ezekiel. 1–20 (Anchor Bible 22; Garden City, New York: Doubleday
1983) 375, who cites for the senses ‘best’ and ‘choice’ Exod 23:19 = 34:26; Ezek
44:30, cf. Num 18:12.