Chapter 3 - grammar points Flashcards
מְשָׁרֵ֥ת
a server - piel pt masc sing of sharut - dagesh rejected - reshes reject dagesh fortes / qamets shows the dagesh that isn’t there
יָקָר֙
precious / rare
נִפְרָֽץ׃
being spread about - niphal pt as seen by the qamets / ms sing from parutz - modifying “vision” (wide spread visions) - has a silluq accent
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sof pasuch - major disjunctive accent
נִפְרָֽץ
accent underneath is a silluq - near subordinate accent - must be the preceding word to the sof pasuch
עֵלִ֑י
accent is an athnach - far subordinate accent - these two mark up the two major divisions of the verse . . .
יְהוָ֖ה
tiphchah - must occur one or at most two words in front of the athnach - the near subordinate accent to the athnach
שְׁמוּאֵ֛ל
tebir - marks off the subject of the nominal clause - near subordinate accent to the tiphchah - looks like a J with a dot inside - a minor disjunctive accent - disjunctives give us syntactic and semantic breaks to break up the sentence
הָהֵ֔ם
zaqef qaton - remote subordinate accent - separates the sentence - from the athnach
יָקָר֙
pashta - sets off the near subordinate of the zaqef qaton - a minor disjunctive accent - looks like an upside down J
יְהוָ֗ה
rebia - remote / far subordinate (demarcate after the accents) looks like a diamond -
וְהַנַּ֧עַר
darga - combines young boy with Samuel
מְשָׁרֵ֥ת
mereka - conjunctive accent - runs the word together with the following word
לִפְנֵ֣י
munach - conjunctive accent - runs together with the following word
דְבַר־יְהוָ֗ה
maqqef
הָיָ֤ה
mahpak - conjunctive accent - joins to the next word - arrow facing left
ketiv
what was written
qere
what is read (in brackets)
הֵחֵלּוּ
begin from chalul
כֵהוֹת
adjective - dim (to be) predicate adj.
וְנֵר
lamp
טֶרֶם
not yet
יִכְבֶּה
go out
וַיָּ֣רָץ
he ran - from rootz - qamets hatuf - shureq - reduces to a holem