1. Verb Review
Through Chapter 20

2. Perfect
Recognition
Suffix endings
3ms – no suffix (vocabulary form)

3. Perfect Ah – Ta – Te – Ti – U – Tem – Ten – Nu Ah - ָה Ta - תָּ

4. Perfect
U - וּ
Tem - תֶּם
Ten - תֶּן
Nu - נוּ

5. Perfect Exegetical significance
Not like the Greek perfect! (completed action w/ ongoing result)
In Hebrew, what determines tense?

6. Perfect Exegetical significance
Views the action as a whole – pictures the action as complete
Not necessarily completed! What determines tense?
It’s like seeing an entire town at once, standing on a mountain with the town in the valley below

7. Imperfect Recognition Say the forms out loud
Prefix form – Always has a prefix, sometimes has a suffix

8. Imperfect (pg. 200)

9. Imperfect (pg. 200)

10. Imperfect Exegetical Significance
Focuses on the internal progress of the action
Action – start, end, ongoing, repeated, habitual, etc.
It’s like seeing a town from the inside while you are in it. You can’t see the whole anymore, but you can see the details of what is happening.

11. Imperative Recognition
Identical to 2nd person imperfect minus the prefix – say the forms!
Might have a suffix, might not
2ms imperative vs. 3ms perfect – the vowels are different!
Context is also a big clue

12. Imperative (pg. 116)

13. Imperative Exegetical significance Command
Strong request – When made to a superior (think of the entreaties in the Psalms)

14. Participle Recognition
Holem above the first ROOT letter (not just any letter, but the first ROOT!)
Noun endings
Accompanying subject
Passive – Shureq between 2nd and 3rd root letters

15. Qal Active Participle (pg. 120)

16. Qal Passive Participles (pg. 121)

17. Participle Exegetical Significance
Continuous activity – “The goat is eating grass”
Characteristic activity – “Goats eat grass”

18. Infinitive Constructs
Recognition
Identical to 2ms imperative – holem above the 2nd root
Usually an inseparable preposition attached – usually the lamed inseparable preposition

19. Infinitive Constructs
Exegetical significance
Often emphasizes purpose – answers the question “Why?”
Other functions as well

20. Infinitive Absolutes Recognition
Holem-waw between 2nd and 3rd root letters (careful to distinguish between passive participles!)
No prefixes or suffixes – Infinitive absolutes stand absolutely alone!

21. Infinitive Absolutes Exegetical significance CIA twins
Prepositive intensive cognate infinitive absolute
Postpositive continuative cognate infinitive absolute
Other functions as well

22. Waw-Correlative Recognition Waw conjunction attached to a perfect verb
Also called “weqatal”

23. Waw-Correlative Exegetical significance
Demonstrates a logical connection to what has come before (co-relation)
It’s like a crowd of people standing together. They are loosely connected, but they are not standing one after another in strict sequence.

24. Waw-Consecutive Recognition
Waw conjunction attached to an imperfect verb (w/ article pointings)
Also called “wayyiqtol”

25. Waw-Consecutive Exegetical significance
Depicts a temporal or logical sequence
It’s like standing in the queue. It’s one person after the other in sequence.
This happened, then this, then this, then this, etc.
This happened because of this,
Etc.

26. Exercise 7 #10 .

27. Exercise 7 #11

28. Exercise 7 #12

29. Exercise 7 #13

30. Exercise 7 #14

31. Exercise 7 #15

32. Exercise 7 #16

33. Exercise 7 #17