An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax

4. תא ֵ תֹאֹרה ָ ךָיני ֶ֫
ֵע
ה ָשׂ ָע ר ֶשׁ א־ל ֲ ָכּ
5. ר ֵבּדּ ַמ
ִ תא ֵ ע ַמ ְשׁ אֶ וָ
׃י ָלא ֵ
6. תא ֵ וֹל וּדיגַּיּ ִ֫
וַ
םתֹא ָ תֹרֹקּה־ל ַ ָכּ
7. ה ָכלְ נ ֵ םירִ ְמֹא יתִּ ְע ַמ ֫ ָשׁ
ה ָנְי תֹדּ ֑ ָ֫
8.
1 Sam 11:12
Your eyes are the ones that saw all he did.
Deut 3:21
I heard one speaking to me.
Ezek 2:2
And they told him all that had happened to them.
Gen 42:29
I heard (them) say, “Let’s go to Dothan.”
Gen 37:17
ה ָצרְ א ַ֫
םירִ ָגּ ִנּה ַ םִימּ ַ֫
ַכּ like water spilled on the ground
2 Sam 14:14
b The relative participle, unlike the predicative, often has the article (19.6). Like an
adjective, the attributive relative (which functions as a dependent relative clause)
agrees with its noun in definiteness (definite: ## 9–11; indefinite: # 12), though in
later style exceptions occur (## 13–14). Because of this agreement, it is possible for
the relative participle to be separated from its antecedent (## 11, 15). 38
10.
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11.
׃יוּנ ָבּה ַ חַ ֵבּ זְ מִּ ה־ל ַ ַע upon the altar which had been built
Judg 6:28
׃וי ָלא ֵ האֶ רְ ִנּה ַ הוהי ַל YHWH, who had appeared to him
תמ֑ ֶ א ֱ הוהי־יטֵ ְפּ ְשׁ מִ
םידִ מָ חֱ ֶנּה ַ ׃ודָּ חַי ְ וּקדְ ָצ
בהָ זָּ מִ
12. האָ ָבּ הרָ ָעס ְ חוּר ַ
ןוֹפ ָצּה־ן ַ ִמ
13. םיאִ ָבּה ַ םי ִכאָ ְל ַמ דַיבְּ םִי ַל֫ ָשׁוּרְי
Gen 12:7
The statutes of YHWH are true, altogether righteous,
that are more desirable than gold.
Ps 19:10–11
a stormy wind that was coming from the north
Ezek 1:4
through the envoys who have come to Jerusalem
Jer 27:3
38 On the definiteness disagreements, see Davidson, Hebrew Syntax, 133; on the
separation, note also Ps 19:8–11 and 137:7, pointed out to us by Paul Mosca; cf. Ps
70:4.