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Jonah: A Handbook on the Hebrew Text takes the study of the grammar of this narrative to the next level. This volume addresses important questions and issues relating to Hebrew syntax in Jonah and provides clarity to the student or pastor seeking to better understand how to interpret the biblical text.

כִּי הַיָּם הוֹלֵךְ וְסֹעֵר. Embedded hortatory discourse—off-the-line. כִּי. When the particle כִּי marks a clause that offers the actual reason for the state of affairs, then it is understood as a coordinating conjunction, introducing a causal clause. הַיָּם. Subject of the clause. הוֹלֵךְ וְסֹעֵר. Qal act ptc + waw cop + Qal act ptc. When functioning as a verb, participles can note action that is imminent. Although the storm itself is not new to the narrative (v 4), the impending intensity of
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