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This new and fully revised edition of the A Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar serves as a user-friendly and up-to-date source of information on the morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics of Biblical Hebrew verbs, nouns and other word classes (prepositions, conjunctions, adverbs, modal words, negatives, focus particles, discourse markers, interrogatives and interjections). It also contains...

The infinitive absolute occurs about 865 times in the Hebrew Bible.34 In more than 50% of the cases, the infinitive absolute is followed by a finite verb with the same root. In only 31 instances is the infinitive absolute preceded by a finite verb.35 In comparison with Samuel and Kings, the infinitive absolute construction is used much less frequently in Chronicles. Instances where the construction functions as a directive, which abound in Classical Biblical Hebrew, are, however, completely absent
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