An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax

13. הָיה־ר ָ֫
ֶשׁ א ֲ םוֹק ָמּ ה־ד ַ ַע
הלֹהֳ א ָ ם ָשׁ
14. אוֹב ָנ רשׁא ֲ םוֹק ָמּ ה־ל ַ ָכּ
ה ָמּ ָשׁ ֫
15. חקַּ ֻל ר ֶשׁ א ֲ ה ָמ דָ אֲ ה־ת ָ אֶ
׃ם ָשּׁ מִ
to the place where (which) his tent had been (there) 12
Gen 13:3
every place to which we shall come
Gen 20:13
the ground from which he had been taken
Gen 3:23
c A so-called “independent relative” clause may, as noted in 19.1d, serve in a verbal
clause as either subject (# 16) or object (# 17), in a verbless clause (# 18), and in a
genitive function, either as object of a preposition (## 19–20) or as a second term in a
construct chain (# 21). 13
16. ר ֶשׁ אֲ ו ַ חַ ֹנ־ךְ ָ א ַ ראֶ ָשִּׁי ֫ וַ
׃ה ָבתֵּ ַבּ וֹתּאִ 17. תא ֵ יתִּ ְעדָי ַ֫ י ִכּ
ךְרֹב ָ ְמ ךְרֵ ָבתּ־ר ְ ֶשׁ אֲ
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19.
20.
21.
19.4 Uses of שׁ
וּנתָּ ֫ א ִ ר ֶשׁ א ֲ םיבִּ רַ
׃םתָּ א ִ ר ֶשׁ אֲ ֵמ
וֹתיבּ־ל ֵ ַע ר ֶשׁ אֲ ַל ר ֶמאֹ יּ֫ ַ
Only Noah and those with him in the ark were left.
Gen 7:23
I know as blessed the one whom you bless.
Num 22:6
More are they who are with us than they who are with
them.
2 Kgs 6:16 manuscript Kethiv
ו He said to him who was over his house…
Gen 43:16
וּניבִ֫ אָ ְל ר ֶשׁ אֲ ֵמוּ from what belonged to our father
תא֑ נֵ ָשׂ ר ֶשׁ א ֲ דַי ְ
Gen 31:1
בּ into the hand of those you hate
Ezek 23:28
12 The use of mqwm shows how completely the etymological sense of ˒šr had faded.
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Rarely ˒šr is used as an indefinite pronoun, perhaps only in Gen 31:32, 44:9, both
times with mṣ˒, in related passages. The phrase ˒šr ˓l (h)byt, found in # 19, is also
attested in the Silwan or Royal Steward inscription; see H. J. Katzenstein, “The Royal
Steward,” Israel Exploration Journal 10 (1960) 149–54.