An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax

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5. תִיבַ֫ ְבּ תִי ַ֫ב י ֵעיגִּ ַמ יוֹה
וּביר֑֫ ִ ְקַי הדֶ ָשׂ ְב הדֶ ָשׂ
אוּה אוֹפא־י ֵ מִ
י ִל א ֵביּ ָ֫ו
ַ דִי ַצ־ד ֫ ָצּהַ 7. יתִ רָ ָצ םוֹיבּ ְ יתֹא ִ ה ֶנֹעהָ ידִ מָּ ִע יהְי ִ ו ַ
8. םימ֑ ִ דָ בּ ְ רי ִע ה ֶנֹבּ יוֹה
׃ה ָלוְ ַע ְבּ הָירְ ִק ןנוֹכ ֵ ו ְ
9. וּר ְמ אָ ְ . . . םי ִע ָבּ ְשׁ נִּ הַ
Woe to those who join house to house and lay field to
field. 54
Isa 5:8
Who then was it that hunted game and brought (it) to
me?
Gen 27:33
the one who answered me in the day of distress and has
been with me
Gen 35:3
Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and
establishes a town by crime!
Hab 2:12
ו those who swear…and say 55
Amos 8:14
[Page 632] 38 Subordination
38.1 Textual Organization
38.2 Conditional Clauses
38.3 Final and Result Clauses
38.4 Causal Clauses
38.5 Comparative Clauses
38.6 Exceptive Clauses
38.7 Temporal Clauses
38.8 Constituent Noun Clauses
38.1 Textual Organization
a The principal subjects of this grammar are the internal organization of phrases and
clauses; we have considered these in the larger context of the biblical discourse but
without close attention to the ways in which that discourse works (3.3.4). The basis
for larger textual organization is furnished by various classes of markers, notably
particles, including conjunctions such as ו ְ and ךְ ַ
א and exclamations such as יוֹה and
by various verb and noun forms such as יהְי ִ ו ַ and ירֵ ְשׁ א. ַ It is with these and similar
markers that the three final chapters are concerned. In this chapter we discuss some
aspects of subordination, namely, the grammatical control of one clause by another
clause, that is, by a main clause; in the next chapter we discuss some features of
coordination, that is, the grammatical association of two or more clauses; and in
Chapter 40 we discuss exclamations and interrogative clauses.
54 Cf. Ps 147:14–15.
55 Cf. Mic 3:5.