An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax

ינוּ ִ ג֫ רָ הֲ ו ַ
6. הרָ קָ ֲע־תְּ א ַ אנ־ה ָ ֵנּהִ תי֫ רִ הָ ו ְ תְּ דְ ַלָי ֫ אֹ לוְ ׃ן ֵבּ תְּ דְ ַלָי ֫ ו ְ
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7.
8. ָ
. . . ישִׁי־ן ֑ ָ ֶב ימוּ ִ
יתּ֫ תַ ָנו ְ . . . יתִּ ֫ חְ קַ ָלוְ Gen 20:1–1
You are sterile and have not borne a child, but you will
become pregnant and bear a son.
Judg 13:3
Who is this son of Jesse…that I should take…and
give…
1 Sam 25:10–11
תּדְ קַ֫ ְפ ִנו ְ שׁדֶ ֹח ֑֫ רחָ ָמ Tomorrow is New Moon, and you will be missed.
9. תהָ ְק־ינֵ ְבּ תדֹב ַ ֲע תאֹ ז
וינָ ָבוּ ןֹרהֲ א ַ א ָבוּ . . .
10. תאֵ ֵמ םינִ הֹכּ ֲ ל ַ קֹח י ִכּ
וּל ְכאֽ ָ ו ְ הֹערְ ַפּ
םקָּ ח־ת ֻ א ֶ
11. . ה֑יָּמֹה ִ תוּליסִ כּ ְ ת ֶשׁ א֫
ֵ
חתַ ֶפ֫ ל ְ ה ָב ְשָׁי וְ
. .
הּתי ֑ ָ בּ ֵ
1 Sam 20:18
This is the work of the Kohathites…Aaron and his sons
will enter… 35
Num 4:4–5
…because the priests had an allotment from Pharaoh and
would eat from their allotment.
Gen 47:22
The woman Folly is loud…and sits at the entrance of her
house.
Prov 9:13–14
32.2.5 With Non-Finite Verb Forms
a Wəqataltí forms can be used with all three types of non-finite verb forms. After a
participle used in a conditional clause, relative wəqtl can serve in the apodosis (# 1).
The participle used as a casus pendens (## 2–4) is similar to a conditional clause. The
wəqtl form can be used to describe a consequent situation, whether temporal (# 5) or
logical (## 6–7; # 6 with a volitional force), or an imperfective situation (cf. # 12).
Both wayyqtl and relative wəqtl may follow a participle. How do the two
constructions differ? Driver rightly noted that the latter construction occurs in
connection with indefinite situations whereas the former occurs with concrete ones:
Wherever the [participle] or [infinitive] asserts something indefinite or undetermined—
wherever, therefore, it may be resolved into whoever, whenever, if ever etc…—we find the
perfect with ו ְ consecutive employed: where, on the contrary, the [participle] or [infinitive]
35 Cf. Deut 18:3.