An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax

lacking in post-exilic texts synoptic with pre-exilic texts evincing the form). 30 The
combination is also used in gnomic situations (rendered with an English present tense;
## 7–8) and with future-time reference (# 9).[Page 577]
1. . . . ה ָשׁ ָבַּ י ְל םָי ךְפַ הָ
֫
׃וֹבּ־החָ ְמ ְשׂ נ ִ ם ָשׁ
2. ה ָניבִ֫ א ָ םִיאתָ ְפּב ַ ארֶ א֫ ֵ וָ
םינִ ָבּ ַב
3. דַיּמ ִ ם ֶכתְ א ֶ ל ִצּאַ וָ
ם ֶכל ָ ה ָנתְּ אֶ וָ
. . . םִי ר֫ ַ ְצ ִמ
הרָ ְמֹא ו ָ ׃ם ָצרְ א־ת ַ אֶ
4. ןוֹל ָמּ ה־ל ַ א ֶ וּנא ָ֫ב־י ִכּ יהְי ִ וַ
וּניתֹח ֵ֫
תְּ ְמ א־ת ַ א ֶ החָ תְּ
ְפ ִנּוַ 5.
ל֑ וָּ ַע תוֹע ְלֹּת ְמ הרָ ְבּ ַשׁ אֲ ָ
6. רי ִק םירִ וְ ִע ַכ ה ָשׁ ְשׁ גַ ְנ
ה ָשׁ שּׁ֑ ֵ֫
גַ ְנ םִיני ַ֫
ֵע ןיאֵ ְכוּ
7. םאִ ָבל ְ ךְוֹת ְבּ י ִשׁ פְ ַנ
ה ָב ְכּ ְשׁ אֶ
8. ס֑ נּ־ה ֵ אֶ רְ א ֶ יתַ ָמ־ד ַע
׃ר ָפוֹשׁ לוֹק ה ָע ְמ ְשׁ אֶ
He turned the sea into dry land,…there we rejoiced in
him.
Ps 66:6
I saw among the simple, I noticed among the young
men…
Prov 7:7
And I snatched you from the power of Egypt…and I
gave you their land, and I said…
Judg 6:9–10
At the place where we stopped for the night, we
opened our sacks.
Gen 43:21
ו I broke the fangs of the wicked.
Job 29:17
Like the blind we grope along the wall, we grope like
those without eyes.
Isa 59:10
I lie among lions.
Ps 57:5
How long will I see the battle standard and hear the
sound of the trumpet?
Jer 4:21
34.6 Jussive and Cohortative after Imperative
a After an imperative a verbal form not preceded by its subject or a negative particle is
normally either a jussive (## 1–2) or a cohortative (## 3–5; cf. 34.5.2b). 31 Where a
prefix-conjugation form is not morphologically marked in such a context, it may be
30 See R. Polzin, Late Biblical Hebrew: Toward an Historical Typology of Biblical
Hebrew Prose (Missoula: Scholars Press, 1976) 54–55. Cf. Qimron, Dead Sea
Scrolls, 44.
31 H. M. Orlinsky, “On the Cohortative and Jussive after an Imperative or Interjection
in Biblical Hebrew,” Jewish Quarterly Review 31 (1940–41) 371–82; 32 (1941–42)
191–205, 273–77.