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In Malachi: A Handbook on the Hebrew Text, Terry Eddinger provides a practical guide for students and teachers working through the Hebrew text of Malachi. Eddinger addresses the grammatical and syntactical issues within the final book of the Minor Prophets, while drawing out the larger narrative of the text through analysis of how words and phrases function in larger clauses and paragraphs....

אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה. Qal qatal 3 m s √אָמַר + pr noun. Discourse in past time identifying Yahweh as the speaker. This is an abbreviated messenger formula and is a common phrase found in Amos, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi marking divine speeches. See note in 1:4 and 3:13 below. וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם. Qal weqatal 2 m pl √אָמַר. The waw indicates a continuation of the narrative in past time and serves as an adversative conjunction, translated as “but” in English, indicating a reversal of thought. In this case,
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