Grammar Terms and Examples
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| people, cattle | singular for a collective | |
| hands, ears, sandals | dual for two or more of something that comes in pairs | |
| two years, two cubits, two days | dual for two of something | |
| virginity, old age, youth, life | abstract plural | |
| master, God, your grave | plural of respect | |
| the first dust of the world | plural of composition | |
| shed blood, harvested grain | plural of a natural product in an unnatural state | |
| face, neck, heaven | plural of extension (single object consists of many parts) | |
| day after day, any man | distributive repetition | |
| pure gold, very gradually | emphatic repetition | |
| my son my son, my father my father | repetition of endearment | |
| father, king | masculine natural gender | |
| house (בית), word (דבר), heart (לבב) | masculine grammatical gender | |
| mother, queen | feminine natural gender | |
| sword (חרב), cup (כוס), fire (אש) | feminine grammatical gender | |
| foot (רגל), ear (אזן), horn (קרן) | feminine names of body parts | |
| Egypt, Moab, Tyre | feminine names of countries and cities | |
| Egyptians, Arameans, Moabites | masculine referring to inhabitants | |
| faithfulness (אמונה), love (אהבה), benefit (טובה) | feminine for an abstract idea | |
| this (זאת) | feminine for a neuter concept | |
| inhabitants (יושבת), enemies (איבת), caravan (ארחה) | feminine singular for a collective | |
| a single hair of his head, a single ship from a fleet of ships | feminine singular for a singulative (a single component of a collective) | |
| all of the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon | construct chains may be longer than two words | |
| and all the kingdoms of the earth | a word in the construct state very rarely has the article | |
| the mother of Jacob and Esau | a genitive phrase may modify a construct term | |
| the literature and language of the Chaldeans | construct override | |
| into Joseph's house, toward the wilderness of Damascus | a construct term may have the directive suffix "toward" | |
| all of my life is still in me | broken construct chain | |
| early morning risers (early risers of in the morning) | construct chain with a genitive prepositional phrase | |
| the time we went about with them | construct chain with a genitive substantival clause | |
| the small vessels, the best wine | construct chain with a genitive adjective |
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