Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 17/08/2005 18:44, Dave Washburn wrote:

> ...
>
> > 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?
>
>  
The personal suffix. In other words, here we don't have HINNEHA or 
HINNEH HI', "here she is", but just HINNEH, "here is ..."
...

> It's a fascinating question, and I have no idea about the answer.  I suppose 
> the first step would be to get a full grasp of verbless clauses, but how to 
> do that if we suspect that some of them may be ungrammatical?  So we end up 
> in a circle.  Still, exploring this question might make an interesting 
> dissertation topic for somebody a fair bit younger than I am...
>
>  
... and than I am.


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