Subject-Subject Complement Verbless Clause in Genesis and the Hebrew Bible

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Verbless clauses in biblical Hebrew come in several syntactical varieties. One such example are clauses where one finds a subject and subject complement juxtaposed together with no stated verbal element.  The search for this syntactical pattern appears below (restricted to Genesis; 243 occurrences). I’ve restricted the search somewhat by requiring that the first part of […]

MSH @ July 6, 2008

Finding all the Geminate Verbs in the OT

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Here’s an interesting post on this topic. Apparently, this is a search that can’t be done in most commercial software packages since it requires using something called “regular expressions.” It isn’t syntax, but it’s cool.

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MSH @ June 17, 2008

Wayyiqtol Sequences with Disjunctive X-Qatal

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Here’s an example of a particular sequence that illustrates how a syntactical database can assist scholars looking for this kind of discourse pattern.  The search below asks, “Where in the Hebrew Bible will I find three consecutive wayyiqtol clauses [no expressed subject] followed by a waw conjunction + expressed subject [noun] + qatal that disrupts […]

MSH @ June 15, 2008

YHWH-Elohim as Subject of a Clause

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I recently had occasion to search for all the occurrences where the divine name YHWH is couple with the noun elohim (absolute or construct). I thought I’d tweak that search a bit for the blog. Below are four searches, complete with links to download the syntax query file for Libronix users. I only have the […]

MSH @ June 4, 2008

VSO or SVO? That is the Question

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Scholars involved in the close study of biblical Hebrew know that one of the ongoing debates is whether the biblical Hebrew clause is typically a Verb-Subject-Object (VSO) or Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) order.  This search provides the raw data for this question in the Pentateuch.
Here’s the VSO search in Andersen-Forbes (719 clauses in the Pentateuch):

Here’s the SVO […]

MSH @ May 26, 2008