Title: Hebrew Grammar Quest / 2. Lessons 4-11 / Lesson 05 / Lesson 05 D. Study Verses
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Q: עַמּוּד הֶעָנָן יוֹמָם וְעַמּוּד הָאֵשׁ לָיְלָה
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A: the pillar of cloud by day,; (and/nor) the pillar of fire by night
Reference: Exodus  13:22   שמות
Hint: Pillar = עַמּ֤וּד
Cloud = עָנָן
Back Extra: The gutteral א rejects the daghesh forte of the definite article resulting in compensatory lengthening of the pathach to qamets
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Q: וַיִּקְרָא יַעֲקֹב שֵׁם הַמָּקוֹם פְּנִיאֵל
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A: So Jacob named; the place Peniel
Reference: Genesis  32:31   בראשית
Hint: There are two proper nouns in this passage.
Lit: And he called Jacob name = And/so Jacob named
Back Extra: And (he) called = וַיִּקְרָא and this is also the Hebrew name of the third book of the Torah.
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Q: לֹא־תַחְמֹד כֶּסֶף וְזָהָב
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A: you shall not covet silver or gold
Reference: Deuteronomy  7:25   דברים
Hint: You shall not covet = לֹא־תַחְמֹד
Back Extra: לֹא־תַחְמֹד - If you see a Sheva under a guttural, it has to be a silent sheva
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Q: כָּל־הַנְּחָלִים הֹלְכִים אֶל־הַיָּם
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A: All the rivers flow into the sea
Reference: Ecclesiastes  1:7   קהלת
Hint: The verb in this sentence is הֹלְכִים,  meaning flows or flowing.  What usually flows into הַיָּם?
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Q: וָאֶקְרָא חֹרֶב עַל־הָאָרֶץ וְעַל־הֶהָרִים
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A: I called for a drought; on the land, (and) on the mountains
Reference: Haggai  1:11   חגי
Hint: - הֶהָרִים = The article is preceding an unaccented הָ , חָ, עָ, and will therefore display an irregular Seghol Vowel הֶ
- upon = עַל־
- The first word in the phrase shares the same verbal root as the Hebrew name for the third book of the Torah.  The prefix אֶ (as opposed to י in וַיִּקְרָא ) indicates that this is first person. Can you figure it out?
- Drought = חֹרֶב
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Q: מִי־מָדַד בְּשָׁעֳלוֹ מַיִם וְשָׁמַיִם
Who has measured in his hands [...], And measured/marked off [...]
A: the waters; the heavens
Reference: Isaiah 40:12 ישעיה
Hint: This is a question, albeit a rhetorical one. מָדַד is a word meaning measure, or in modern Hebrew, index.
 בְּשָׁעֳלוֹ has the preposition בְּ which means "in" and the suffix וֹ meaning "his".
שֹׁעַל means palmful or handful, so idiomatically this means "in his hands". So the first part is "Who has measured in his hands..."
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Q: הִנֵּה אָנֹכִי שֹׁלֵחַ לָכֶם אֵת אֵלִיָּה הַנָּבִיא
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A: Behold, I am going to send you; Elijah the prophet
Reference: Malachi 3:23 מלאכי
Hint: The first word, הִנֵּה, is an exclamation meaning "look!", "see!", or "behold!".
If you wanted to say "I" more formally or emphatically, such as "I, myself", אָנֹכִי is the word you would use.
The verbal root for שֹׁלֵחַ means "to send".
Who is the most famous "הַנָּבִיא" ever sent ִin the Hebrew Scriptures? Who came in the spirit of this person in the Apostolic Writings?
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Q: שַׁעֲרֵי הַנְּהָרוֹת נִפְתָּחוּ וְהַהֵיכָל נָמוֹג
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A: The gates of the rivers are opened; and the palace is dissolved
Reference: Nahum 2:7 נחום
Hint: וְהַהֵיכָל - When the article precedes a word beginning with either ה or ח virtual doubling occurs and the vowel under the article remains Pathach
The first two words are what is called a "construct chain" (chapter 10): "the gates of the rivers", referring to the defensive fortifications along the Tigres river.
Then the first verb נִפְתָּחוּ is "have opened." The second verb נָמוֹג means "dissolve" or "melt away" (it sounds a little like "no more"!)
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Q: וַיֵּצֵא מֶלֶךְ־סְדֹם וּמֶלֶךְ עֲמֹרָה וּמֶלֶךְ אַדְמָה וּמֶלֶךְ צְבוֹיִם וּמֶלֶךְ בֶּלַע הִוא־צֹעַר וַיַּעַרְכוּ אִתָּם מִלְחָמָה בְּעֵמֶק הַשִּׂדִּים
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A: And the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah and the king of Admah and the king of Zeboiim and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar); came out
Reference: Genesis 14:8 בראשית
Hint: - וּמֶלֶךְ - When the conjunction precedes words beginning in מ ב or פ then it is spelled with Shureq; BUMP rule!
- Also you may have noticed that although "king" has no article, it is being translated with the word "the," you will learn the reason for this in lesson10
- The only verb is the first word, which means "and (he) went out. Apart from your vocabulary word in this lesson, all but one of the other words are place names. Hebrew word order likes to put the verb first but in English we might say "(all those מלכים ) went or came out."
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