Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Dear Dave,

>  > I accept that Hebrew sentences can be verbless without being
> >  ungrammatical. But what looks ungrammatical here is the absence or
> >  elision of the personal suffix HINNEH. But re Gen 18:9 BDB mentions "the
> >  suffix ... being not infrequently omitted". So perhaps this is not the
> >  best example - it was simply the first possible one that I found.
>
> Ugh.  My BDB - along with all my other books - is packed.  What suffix do you
> mean?

HH: It would be an understood suffix for HINNEH , a 3fs suffix 
indicating Sarah: "See (her) in the tent."

                                        Yours,
                                        Harold Holmyard