An Introduction to the Study of Hebrew

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C. H. Kelly, 1894 - Hebrew language - 190 pages
 

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Page 165 - Whatever, therefore, be the shade of meaning borne by the first or 'dominant' verb, the perfect following, inasmuch as the action it denotes is conceived to take place under the same conditions, assumes it too : be the dominant verb a jussive, frequentative, or subjunctive, the perfect is virtually the same. To all intents and purposes the perfect, when attached to a preceding verb by means of this waw consecutive, loses its individuality: no longer maintaining an independent position, it passes...
Page 151 - At that time, saith the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves...
Page 165 - In fact, the waw appears really in this connection to possess a demonstrative significance, being equivalent to then or so 1 ; in this capacity, by a pointed reference to some preceding verb, it limits the possible realisation of the action it introduces to those instances in which it can be treated as a direct consequence of the event thus referred to. And we may conjecture that the emphatic alteration of tone is designed to mark this limitation : the changed pronunciation...
Page 73 - VtsjxT) thou (to) kill=thou wilt kill. d. The different position of the pron. is easily intelligible psychologically : in the completed action we are more particularly interested in the fact; in an action which is not yet completed, we take more interest in the person of the agent. e. Owing partly to the origin of the verb as described, partly to the frequent use of the 3. person, we can understand how in the 3. person (of the perf. at least) all indication of the person came to be dispensed with,...

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