Williams' Hebrew Grammar paragraphs 61-105
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look (at) the heavens!, bring the men (into) the house | Directive ה– | |
from days toward days (from year to year/yearly) | Temporal ה– | |
they will be brought back from (the direction of) Babylon, from (the direction of) the north | Separative ה– | |
David remained (at Horesh) | Locative ה– | |
(widow) woman, (virgin) young woman, (priest) man | Genus-species apposition (a general term is followed by a more specific term that is a subset of the first) | |
truth words (true words), staggering wine (intoxicating wine), deceit tongue (a deceitful tongue) | Attributive apposition (translated into English as an attributive adjective) | |
the report was (true) | Predicate apposition (first term acts as a predicate adjective) | |
the oxen the bronze (the bronze oxen), seah finely milled flour (a seah of finely milled flour) | Apposition of material | |
waters two knees (knee-deep water) | Apposition of measurement (second term states how much there is of the first term as a measurement) | |
days few (a few days) | Apposition of number (second term counts how many there are of the first term) | |
the land Canaan (the land of Canaan), to Solomon the king (to King Solomon) | Explicative apposition (one term gives the name of the other) | |
she saw him the child (she saw the child), when he to enter the man (when the man entered) | Anticipative apposition (a pronominal suffix is in apposition to and precedes its referent) | |
I will greatly multiply your pain and your pregnancy (I will greatly multiply your labour pain) | Hendiadys (one meaning expressed by two words) | |
(other) gods, my (older) daughter, the (living) God | Attributive adjective | |
constructio ad sensum | when a sentence is written according to its logic rather than according to its form | |
(this) wicked clan, within (those) many days | Demonstrative adjective | |
go in (this) strength of yours | Demonstrative pronoun in attributive apposition (demonstrative lacks the article because its substantive lacks the article because it is definite by a pronominal suffix) | |
the wickedness of mankind was (great), his mercy is (great), because the place is (holy) | Predicate adjective | |
he was (taller than) all the people | Comparative adjective (normal form of adjective + מן) | |
his (youngest) son (בנו הקטן) | Attributive adjective with the article as superlative (based on context) | |
you are (the least) of all the peoples | Predicate adjective with the article as superlative (normally lacks the article, so when it has one it is superlative) | |
young of his sons (the youngest of his sons) | Adjective in construct as superlative | |
good of them like briar (the best of them is like a briar) | Adjective with a pronominal suffix as superlative | |
servant of servants (an abject slave), futility of futilities (utter futility) | Superlative genitive (always plural) | |
a (terrible) panic (חרדת אלהים) | Divine epithet as a superlative (a name/title for God used to describe something) | |
his city | A word with a pronominal suffix normally lacks the article | |
(the) one feeding you the manna (המאכלך מן) | A participle that begins a relative clause often has the article (even if the participle has a pronominal suffix) | |
creator of heavens and earth | The article is rare in poetry | |
The king said, "Fetch me a sword," so they brought (a) sword to the king | Anaphoric article/referential use of the article | |
in (the) scroll (on a scroll), (the) day happened (one day) | Article on something that is definite in the mind of the narrator | |
David was sitting between (the) two gates | Article on a well-known substantive | |
She took (her) veil (ותקח הצעיף) | Possessive article (article used instead of pronominal suffix) | |
the day (this day/today), the time (this time) | Demonstrative article (article used like a demonstrative pronoun) | |
the river (the Euphrates) | Distinctive article | |
Help, my lord, the (O) king! | Vocative article | |
YHWH, who had appeared (הנראה) to himto him | Article on a participle that begins a relative clause (article usually prefixed to a participle that begins a relative clause) | |
and all (the he dedicated) Samuel (and all that Samuel had dedicated) | Article on a perfect verb that begins a relative clause | |
the Canaanite (the Canaanites), God will judge the wicked and the righteous | Generic article (used on a word that refers to a class rather than to an individual) | |
one man, one woman (a certain woman) | One | |
two of men (two men) | Two | |
the (five) kings of Midian, (seven) sons and (three) daughters | Three through Ten | |
(twelve) princes, (fifteen) sons | Eleven through Nineteen | |
(forty) sons, (fifty) shekels of silver | Multiples of Ten | |
(sixty-two) years, (seventy-five) years | Multiples of ten plus units | |
in the (second) year, the (seventh) day | First through Tenth | |
in year of two (in the second year) | First through tenth using cardinal numbers | |
he begin with the twelfth (with two the ten), on the (seventeenth) day (in seven ten day) | Eleventh and higher | |
two by two, every morning | Distributive repetition | |
generation and generation (every generation), six and six (six each) | Distributive repetition with ו | |
room by room, as year by year (as every year) | Distributive repetition with ב | |
according to hundreds and according to thousands (by hundreds and thousands) | Distribution with ל | |
everyone who holds to her is fortunate, everyone who profanes it will certainly be put to death | Distribution with plural subject and singular predicate | |
every house (כל בית) is barred from entry | Distribution with כל followed by an indefinite substantive |
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