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Strengthen your Hebrew. Too often, a former Hebrew student is a lapsed Hebrew student. The paradigms, the syntactical forms, and even the alphabet can be hard to recall. The way to make Hebrew stick, like any language, is to continue to put it to use. In Ruth: A Guide to Reading Biblical Hebrew, Adam J. Howell helps intermediate readers of Hebrew work through the text of Ruth with exegetical...

is a nominal clause providing circumstantial information with the nuance of addition.9 Naomi went out from the place where she was, but under the circumstance of her daughters-in-law being with her. The vav is not a vav of accompaniment as before because the prepositional phrase at the end of the clause makes this a verbless clause on its own terms. “Naomi went out … and the two of her daughters-in-law were with her.” In this verbless clause, the verb “were” must be supplied. וַתֵּלַ֣כְנָה בַדֶּ֔רֶךְ
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