Unit 24

Question 1

ב - ח - ר

Answer 1

To choose, select

Question 2

ח - פ - ץ

Answer 2

To desire, want

Question 3

א - ר - ר

Answer 3

To curse

Question 4

שׂ - מ - ח

Answer 4

To be happy

Question 5

What is the qal passive participle?

Answer 5

A participle serving as an adjective describing something that has been done to the subject (‘captured’, ‘burnt’, ‘cursed)

Question 6

What happens when suffixes are added to the qal passive participle?

Answer 6

The participle undergoes propretonic reduction

Question 7

How is the qal passive participle used?

Answer 7

Predicatively or attributively (like an adjective)

Question 8

When the qal passive participle is functioning predicatively, it agrees with its noun in gender and number but is always indefinite. How does this differ from its attributive use?

Answer 8

When functioning attributively, it must agree with its noun in definiteness as well

Question 9

Can the passive participle appear in construct to a noun?

Answer 9

Yes, the noun functions as the agent (the thing that carried out the action, i.e. ‘burned by fire’)

Question 10

How is the passive participle negated?

Answer 10

With אֵין

Question 11

What is a disjunctive accent?

Answer 11

An accent that signals a pause in the text

Question 12

What is a conjunctive accent?

Answer 12

An accent that indicates that the words in question are closely linked in meaning or grammar and should be read together

Question 13

What is a silluq (׀) and where does it appear?

Answer 13

An accent that appears on the accented syllable of the word at the end of the verse to indicate a full stop

Question 14

What is an atnah (upside down u) and where does it appear?

Answer 14

An accent that appears on the stressed syllable of the word that precedes the biggest pause in the verse, dividing it into two parts

Question 15

What is a pausal form?

Answer 15

A word appearing before a large break in the text signalled by one of the major disjunctive accents

Question 16

What are some of the main changes that happen when a verb is in its pausal form?

Answer 16

• Patah lengthens to qamatz
• Stressed segol in segolates lengthens to qamatz
• Shewa lengthens to a full vowel and takes the stress

Question 17

Where does the stress shift if the vowel of an unaccented syllable is lengthened in pause?

Answer 17

To the unaccented syllable

Question 18

דָּוִד

Answer 18

David

Question 19

מ - ת - ק

Answer 19

To sweeten

Question 20

בַּדִּים

Answer 20

Linen

Question 21

יִשְׁמָעֵאלִ

Answer 21

Ishmaelites

Question 22

שִׁמְשׁון

Answer 22

Samson

Question 23

תִּמְנָה

Answer 23

Timnah

Question 24

פְלִשְׁתִּי

Answer 24

Philistines

Question 25

ע - ל - ה

Answer 25

To go up

Question 26

בָּחוּר

Answer 26

Bachelor, young man

Question 27

מֵרֵעַ

Answer 27

Companion

Question 28

ח - ו - ד

Answer 28

To pose a riddle

Question 29

חִידָה

Answer 29

Riddle

Question 30

אִם

Answer 30

If, whether

Question 31

סָדִין

Answer 31

Garment, sheet

Question 32

ח - ל - ף

Answer 32

To move past, the change

Question 33

עַז

Answer 33

Strong