An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax

21. אוֹלה ֲ בֹק ֲעַי ע ַשׁ פ־י ֶ֫
מִ
ןוֹר ְמֹשׁ
Ruth 3:16
What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria?
Mic 1:5
In contrast המ may be used when the circumstance rather than the person is in
view.
22.
ךָמ֑ ֶ֫
ְשּׁ־ה ַמ 11
What is your name?
23.
Gen 32:28
ה ֶלּא֑ ֵ֫
ה ָ םירִ ְב ִעה ָ ה ָמ What about these Hebrews?
1 Sam 29:3
e The indefinite uses of ימ are chiefly nominative: ימ is generally the subject of the
main clause and head of a relative clause.
24.
ארָי־י ֵ מ ִ anyone who is afraid
25.
י֑ לָ א ֵ הוהי ַל י ִ
26. שׁגִּי ַ םירִ ָב דּ ְ ל ַע ַ֫ב־ימִ ׃םהֶ ֵלא ֲ
27.
ה ֶלּא ֵ֫
ן ֵב֫ יָ ו ְ ם ָכח ָ י ִ
Judg 7:3
מ Whoever is for YHWH, [come] to me.
Exod 32:26
Whoever has a cause, let him approach them.
Exod 24:14
מ Whoever is wise, let him understand these things.
Hos 14:10
The relative head רשׁא may follow ימ (# 28) or even שׁיאה ימ (## 29–30).
י ִל־אטָ ח ֽ ָ ר ֶשׁ א ֲ ימִ ׃ירִ ְפסִּ ִמ וּנּחֶ֫ ְמ אֶ
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28.
29. לחָי ר ֶשׁ א ֲ שׁיאִ ה ָ ימִ ןוֹ ֑מּ ַע ינֵ ְב ִבּ םהֵ ָלּהִ ְל
שׁאר ְל הֶיהִי ְ
30. ה ָנ ָבּ ר ֶשׁ א ֲ שׁיאִ ה־י ָ מִ
ךְ ֵלֵי . . . שׁדחה־תִי ָ בַ֫
Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my
book. 12
Exod 32:33
Whoever will launch the attack against the
Ammonites will be the head…
Judg 10:18
Whoever has built a new house…let him go [home].
11 A question asking for the meaning of the name. Cf Exod 3:13 perhaps.
12 These passages illustrate the semantic transition from the interrogative sense to the
indefinite sense: ‘Who is the one that sinned against me? I will blot him out’
>‘Who(ever) sinned against me, I will blot out.’ Cf. the suggestions of Brockelmann,
Grundriss, 2. 580.