An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax

םִימ ַ֫
ָשּׁ ַב וֹשׁאֹ רוְ into the sky.
4. . . . תא ֵצֹי הקָ בְ ר ִ ה ֵנּהִ וְ
׃הּ ָמ ְכ ִשׁ־ל ַע הּדָּ ַכו ְ
5. תוֹשׂ ֲע ַל התָ ְיבַּ֫ ה ַ אֹ בָ יּוַ שׁיא ִ ןיאֵ ו ְ וֹתּ֑ ְכא ַל ְמ
ם ָשׁ תִיבַּ֫ ה ַ י ֵשׁ נְ אַ ֵמ
׃תִיבָּ֫ ַבּ
6. הוהיו ַ יתֹא ִ וּרחֲ אַ תּ־ל ְ אַ
יכּ֑ ִ רְ דּ ַ חי ַ ִל ְצהִ 7. םתֶּ אַ ו ְ ץָ ח֑ ָ ְלת ִ אֹ ל ר ֵגוְ ר ֵגּה ַ שׁפֶ ֶנ־ת ֫ א ֶ םתֶּ ְעדְי ַ
8.
שׁפֶ ֶנ־ל ֫ ַע םירִ ק ָ םִימ ַ֫
ה ָבוֹט ֫ ה ָעוּמ ְשׁוּ ה֑ פֵי ָ ֲע
׃קחָ רְ ֶמ ץרֶ א֫ ֶ ֵמ
9. הּרי ֑ ָ ִצ־ל ַע בוֹסּתּ ִ תלֶ דֶּ֫ הַ
׃וֹתטָּ מ־ל ִ ַע ל ֵצ ָעוְ Gen 11:4
Rebekah was coming out…with her pitcher on her
shoulder.
Gen 24:15
And he came into the house to do his work while none
of the household staff were there in the house.
Gen 39:11
Do not detain me since YHWH has made my journey
successful.
Gen 24:56
You shall not oppress a stranger because you
yourselves know the feelings of a stranger.
Exod 23:9
[Like] cold water to a weary soul, so is good news from
a far land. 13
Prov 25:25
[As] the door turns on its hinges, so a sluggard on his
bed.
Prov 26:14
c A disjunctive-waw clause may also shift the scene or refer to new participants; the
disjunction may come at the beginning or end of a larger episode or it may “interrupt”
one. The “interruptive” use, better called explanatory or parenthetical, “break[s] into
the main narrative to supply information relevant to or necessary for the narrative” (#
10). 14 The disjunction may also indicate “either the completion of one episode or the
beginning[Page 652] of another.” 15 At the beginning of a story episode, new,
characters are often first mentioned (# 11); at the conclusion, further developments
are briefly sketched or the narrated episode is put in context (# 12).
10. . . . לאֹגּ ֵ ה ַ ר ֶמאֹ יּ֫ וַ
התָּ א ַ ךָ ְל־לאַ ַגּ
תאֹ זוְ . . . יתִ לָּ אֻ ְגּ־תאֶ The redeemer said, “…Redeem my redemption for
yourself…” Now in the past this was…(the procedure)
for redemption…: to establish any matter a man would
13
Cf. Prov 25:3.
14
Lambdin, Introduction to Biblical Hebrew, 164, citing 1 Sam 1:9, Gen 29:16; note
also Gen 13:7.
15
Lambdin, Introduction to Biblical Hebrew, 164, citing Gen 3:1, 4:1, 16:1, and 21:1.