An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax

If the implicit action is indirect (‘He built a bridge’ ~ ‘He had a bridge built’), the
Pual may be used.
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׃גרֹה ָ ויגָ רֻ ה ֲ גרֶ הֶ ֫ ְכּ Has he been slain like the slaying of his people who
וּשׁטּ֫ ָ רְי ֻ םהי ֶ ֵל ְלֹע
׃וּעקָּ֫ בְ ֻ י ויתוֹיּ ָ רִ הָ ו ְ
׃ךְבֵּ רְ ִק בּ ְ ךְ ֵל ָל ְשׁ ק ַלּחֻ ְ
were slain?
Isa 27:7
Their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their
pregnant women ripped open.
Hos 14:1
ו And your plunder will be apportioned in your midst.
Zech 14:1
c The plural resultative of Qal intransitive is, on Jenni’s view, found in the Pual as
well as the Piel: as with the Piel, the Pual of certain roots refers to a plurality of
events, where the Qal refers to one such event. In the Pual such verbs have multiple
subjects. 9 In a few cases Jenni’s examples are plausible; we discuss one other relevant
verb as a frequentative (25.5a).
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14.
12. םהָ רָ ְבא ַ ר ַבּק ֻ ה ָמּ ָשׁ ֫
׃וֹתּ ְשׁ א ִ הרָ ָשׂ וְ
םהי ֶ דְי ֵ תוֹנֹה
ְבּ
םי ִצ ָצּקֻ ְמ םהי ֶ ֵלגְ רַ וְ
There Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried.
Gen 25:10
their thumbs and big toes hacked off
Judg 1:7
וּעדָּ֫ גּ ֻ םימִ ְק ִשׁ The fig trees have been felled.
Isa 9:9
d The Pual, in contrast to the Piel, is not often used to designate professional activity
(cf. 5.3b). But like its counterpart the Pual is used extensively with the technical
vocabulary of building and crafts. Concerning this use of the Piel Jenni notes: “Also
here the resultative is the starting point for the meaning which is transformed by
professional activity, an activity which is performed successively and, for the most
part, on numerous objects.” 10 Such words listed by Jenni as occurring frequently in
the Piel occur with relatively high frequency in the Pual stem as well.
15.
ר ָבּחֻ וְ And it (the ephod) will be made fast.
Exod 28:7
16. ביבִ ס ָ ר ֵצחָ ה ֽ ֶ ידוּמּ ֵ ַע־ל ָכּ All the posts around the courtyard are to be bound with
~ approximately equal to
9
Jenni’s notion of a definitive resultative is unlikely; his chief examples are dbr in Ps
87:3 and Cant 8:8.
10
E. Jenni, Das hebräische Pi˓el (Zurich: EVZ, 1968) 163. The texts not surprisingly
refer to religious architecture or commerce.