Williams' Hebrew Grammar paragraphs 31-60
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The serpent (italics) deceived me | Nominative subject of a clause | |
You were sojourners (italics) in the land of Egypt, This (italics) is the day | Predicate nominative | |
You were the smallest (italics) of all the people | A predicate nominative normally lacks the article | |
Help, O king (italics)! | Vocative use of the nominative | |
Regarding your wife Sarai (italics), do not call her name Sarai | Nominative absolute | |
Regarding your wife Sarai, do not call her (italics) name Sarai | Resumptive Pronoun (indicates teh conceptual relationship between the nominative absolute and the main sentence) | |
YHWH (italics) loved you (the love of YHWH) | Subjective genitive | |
the violence done, to your brother (italics) (the violence of your brother) | Objective genitive | |
the king's (italics) house, YHWH's (italics) temple | Possessive genitive | |
vessels of silver, ark of wood | Material genitive | |
three (italics) days (days of three) | Enumerated genitive | |
honest (italics) scales (scales of justness), my holy (italics) mountain (mountain of my holy) | Attributive genitive (best translated into English with an attributive adjective) | |
the river Euphrates (italics) (the river of Euphrates), the daughter Zion (italics) (daughter of Zion) | Appositional genitive | |
in the ninth (italics) year (in the year of the ninth), the regular (italics) burnt offering (burnt offering of the regular) | Appositional genitive adjective | |
acacia (italics) wood, marble (italics) stones | Explicative genitive (specifies a subtype or genus within the broader category of the construct noun) | |
sheep, that are slaughtered (italics), chastisement, that brings us peace (italics) | Genitive of result | |
beaten by God (italics) (beaten of God) | Genitive of agent (only if construct is a passive participle) | |
burned by fire (italics) | Genitive of means/instrument (mechanism by which the action is performed) | |
a stiff-(necked) people (people hard of neck), Joseph was (handsome) (Joseph was fair of face) | Epexegetical genitive (occurs after the construct form of an adjective and is the thing the adjective describes) | |
(the best) song (song of the songs), (the supreme) God (god of the gods) | Superlative genitive | |
water (that was waist deep) (water of hips) | Genitive of measure | |
in (the second) year (in year of two), (a few) men (men of few) | Genitive of number | |
God created (mankind) | Direct object accusative | |
פחדו פחד - They were in (sheer) terror, ויעל עלת - He offered (burnt offerings) | Cognate accusative (when the accusative has the same root as the verb) | |
He built the stones (into an altar), if you vow (a vow) | Accusative of product (the result of the action of a verb) | |
All Israel stoned him (with stones) | Accusative of material/means (substance with which the action of the verb is performed) | |
so that it may dwell (in a temple), he stopped (at the door) of the house | Accusative of place (reference location for a verb) | |
my sons have gone (יצא) (from me) and are no more | Separative accusative | |
You will eat dust (all the days of your life), And he reigned (for two years) | Temporal-duration accusative (answers the question, 'for how long?') | |
(In the morning) YHWH will make known | Temporal-point accusative (answers the question, 'when?') | |
He was diseased (in his feet), let us not wound him (with respect to life) | Accusative of specification (sphere in which the verb applies/extent to which the verb occurs) | |
I have seen you (to be righteous), Moses heard the people (weeping) | Predicate accusative | |
(the iron) feel into the water, he requested that (his life) might die, as for anyone, (his holy things) will be his | Emphatic accusative of specification | |
(Esau's words) were told to Rebekah | Determinative accusative | |
I made you walk (uprightly), you lived (securely) | Accusative of manner/Adverbial accusative |
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