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Basics of Hebrew Accents provides readers of biblical Hebrew with a comprehensive working knowledge of accentuation. Hebrew accents can be perplexing but knowing them and their functions will help students become better readers of the Hebrew Bible. The book is an ideal tool for beginning students who are learning to read the language as well as for more advanced students who are reading and...

This verse is divided in half by atnakh (וְכִבְשֻׁ֑הָ). The first half is then divided in half by segolta (אֱלֹהִים֒), which separates the first waw-consecutive imperfect clause (וַיְבָ֣רֶךְ, “blessed”) from the second waw-consecutive imperfect clause (וַיֹּ֨אמֶר, “said”); this second waw-consecutive imperfect clause is epexegetical, or explanatory,21 as it articulates the way in which God blessed humanity: “by saying.” Shalshelet ◌◌֓׀ is a substitute for segolta and occurs only fourteen
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