An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax

8. תא ֵ ינִ תַּ ֫ ְעדוֹה ַ אֹ ל
ימּ֑ ִ ִע ח ַל ְשׁ תּ־ר ִ ֶשׁ אֲ
9.
׃ר ֵבּד ַתּ
ְ ר ֶשׁ א ֲ ךָיתי ִ֫
רוֹה ֵ ְ
But you did not let me know whom you will send with
me. 25
Exod 33:12
ו I will teach you what you shall say.
Exod 4:12
c Just as a verb that is ordinarily transitive in the Qal may appear without an object, so
a verb that is usually a three-place Hiphil may show only one object. With these twoplace
Hiphils, that object is usually a person.
10. ךָיתִּ ֫ ְע ַמ ְשׁ הִ
. . . אֹ להֲ Did I not inform you (lit., cause you to hear)…
11. ךָתֹא ְ האָ רְ ה ֶ ר ֶשׁ אֲ ַכּ
רהָ ָבּ
12.
םוֹיּה ַ ךָיתִּ ֫ ְע ַ
Isa 44:8
just as he showed you (lit., caused you to see) on the
mount
Exod 27:8
דוֹה I teach you (lit., cause you to know) today.
Prov 22:19
Such a construction may have a non-personal object, and in such cases the sense
of the causing is a stative event. The objects of causation in these cases are either
abstract nouns or speech acts.
13. ׃ךָדֶּ֫ בַ ל ְ ךָתְ קָ דְ ִצ רי ִכּזְ אַ I will make mention of your righteousness (lit., cause
your righteousness to be remembered) alone. 26
14.
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15.
16. . . . ַ
וֹת֑ ָעוּשְׁי הוהי עי ַ ִ
תאֹ ז עי ַ מִ ְשׁ ה ִ ימִ םדֶ קֶּ֫ ִמ
עימִ ְשׁ ה ִ הוהי
ןוֹיּ ִצ־ת ַבל ְ וּר ְמ אִ
Ps 71:16
דוֹה YHWH has made known (lit., caused to be known) his
salvation.
Ps 98:2
Who foretold this (lit., caused this to be heard) from of
Old?
Isa 45:21
YHWH has proclaimed (lit., caused to be heard)…”Say
to Daughter Zion…”
Isa 62:11
27.4 Denominative and Isolated Hiphils
a Like the Niphal (23.5) and the Piel (24.4), the Hiphil has a denominative function.
The causative value is always present in this use but with a wide range of meanings,
and extended meanings, depending on the root. One important group refers to
25 On the permissive sense of the Hiphil, see 27.5.
26 Cf. 2 Sam 18:18.