An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax

9.
10.
ה ָנ ְכלַ ֫ תּ ֵ ףֹפטָ ו ְ ךְוֹלהָ They trip along with mincing steps.
הֹכבוּ ָ ךְ ֵלֵי ךְוֹל ָ
11. . . . םִימּ ַ֫
ה ַ וּב ֻשָׁיּ ֫ וַ
בוֹ ֑שׁ ו ָ ךְוֹלהָ 12. ךְוֹלה ָ םרָ ְבא ַ עסִּיּ ַ וַ
׃ה ָבּ ְג ֶנּ֫ ה ַ עוֹס ַ נָ וְ
13.
בוֹשׁו ָ אוֹצָי א ֵצֵיּ ַ
14. ם ֶכי ֵלא ֲ ר ֵבּד ַאֲ
וָ
ר ֵבּד ַ ו ְ ם ֵכּ ְשׁ הַ
15. י ִכֹנ א ָ ר ֶשׁ א ֲ םיאִ ִב ְנּהַ ם ֵכּ ְשׁ הַ ו ְ ם֑ כי ֶ ֵלא ֲ חַ ֵלֹשׂ
חלֹ ַ ָשׁ וְ
Isa 3:16
ה He who (regularly) goes out weeping… 40
Ps 126:6
The water receded steadily.
Gen 8:3
Abram kept on moving toward the Negev.
Gen 12:9
ו And it kept flying back and forth.
Gen 8:7
I spoke to you already for a long period (lit., rising up
early and speaking). 41
Jer 7:13
the prophets whom I sent to you again and again…
Jer 26:5
d A smaller group of double infinitives absolute involve an intensifying paronomastic
infinitive and an adverbial infinitive in a combination which serves to qualify the goal
or character of the principal verb (## 16–18). 42
16. ה ֵכּה ַ שׁיאִ ה ָ וּה ֵכַּ ֫ יּוַ ׃עֹצ ַ ָפוּ
17. יוֹגּה־ת ַ א ֶ יתִּ ְשׁ ַ
ת ָנוְ דבֵּ אַ ו ְ שׁוֹת ָנ אוּההַ 18. םִי ר֫ ַ ְצ ִמ־תא ֶ הוהי ף ַג ָנוְ אוֹ ֑פרָ ו ְ ףֹג ָנ
So the man struck him (the prophet) in such a way as
to wound him.
1 Kgs 20:37
I will uproot that nation in such a way as to destroy it.
Jer 12:17
YHWH will strike Egypt with a plague; he will strike
them and heal them.
Isa 19:22
The broader narrative of # 16 shows clearly that the prophet intended the man to
strike him in such a way that he would not be recognized. In the context of # 17 two
kinds of uprootings are in view: an uprooting that is not beyond recovery (vv 14–17)
40 Note that the adjacent line b˒-ybw˒brnh also begins with an infinitive absolute.
41 Cf. Jer 35:15. See Riekert, “Jeremiah,” 98.
42 See again Joüon §123m / p. 352.