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accent affixes afformatives Aleph assimilation BeGaDKePhaTh changeable vowels CHAPTER Chateph Cheth Chireq Cholem closed syllable compound Sheva Conjugate cons consec consonant consonantal construct Dagesh forte Dagesh lene declension Deut ending express finite verb forte implicitum frequently full vowel gender guttural Hebrew Hiph Hoph impft impv inflexion Jussive Kaph last syllable lengthened long vowel Mappiq Maqqeph masc Metheg Niph nouns Nouns for declension open syllable original Paradigm partcp Pathach pause pers plur preceding prep prepositions pronoun Qal impf Qal pft Qamets Qamets-chatuph Qoph reduced to Sheva Resh second radical second syllable Segol Shechem Sheva is vocal short vowel shortened silent Sheva sing sonants sound stand strong verb suff suffixes tense third radical thou tion Tiphcha tone syllable Tsade Tsere usually verbs Ayin verbs Lamed volatilized to Sheva word xlii xliv xxxvii דָּבָר וַיֹּאמֶר
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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,...