1 Genesis 15:1-18 Very few text critical issues as is typical for books in the Torah. (15:1) Grammatical note = Temporal אח ר (after). The preposition.חר may indicate a time after its object. The object may be a noun, an infinitive construct, or a clause. See Williams 360. behold. see, = חזה vision under BDB 303b. Rare. Root = מ ח ז ה hence construct גנן Root.מ ג נ א shield under BDB 171a. Arb majinu(n). Arm = מ ג ן.מ ג נ י.שכר hire, wages under BDB 969a. Root = ש כ ר הרבה 1 Grammatical note = אל for a negative wish (not). The word אל may be used with the jussive or cohortative verb to express a desire or prayer that something not be. This is like the use of the Greek word μη. This is also called the use of אל to indicate a negative volition. Grammatical note = אל for a negative wish (not). The word אל may be used with the jussive or cohortative verb to express a desire or prayer that something not be. This is like the use of the Greek word μη. This is also called the use of אל to indicate a negative volition. See Williams 402. (15:2) II ערר stripped (specifically) childless under BDB 792b. Very rare. Root = ע ר יר י = strip oneself. "acquisition, possession" (meaning conjected from context) under BDB = מ ש ק 606b. Root משק = (wholly dubious). הוא דמשק 2 1 Read with SamPent ארבה so I will make many? 2 Probably Aramaic gloss from. בן משק Possibly.
2 (15:3) 282a. sowing, seed, offspring under BDB = ז ר ע 439a. take possession of, inherit, dispossess under BDB = ירש (15:4) (plural only) internal organs, inward parts (intestines, bowels), belly under = מ ע ה BDB 588b. Arm מ ע א.מ ע י א Arb maʿā(y)n (a little difficult to read). (15:5) 299b. the outside, (especially in plural specifically) a street under BDB = ח וץ Root חוץ I = (meaning unknown). water). = Hiphil look under BDB 613b. Arb nabaṭa well, issue forth (of נבט נ PN protector. Note form of Hiphil imperative 1 st נבט Akk nabāṭu shine. Sab 3 rd ה verb. pattern. be able, have power under BDB 407a. Note the Qal U vowel = יכל Grammatical note = Directive. ה Also called the terminative h or the directional,ה the directive ה is used as a suffix on a noun to indicate a direction towards the thing named by the noun, often in reference to motion that ceases upon arrival. This category is often combined with 64b, locative. ה See Williams.ה 62. So Williams distinguishes between locative and directive (15:6) 52b. confirm, support under BDB = אמן (meaning חשב Arb ḥasaba. Ph.ח ש ב think, account under BDB 362b. Arm = חשב dubious). (15:7).אנכי or אני uses יהוה Note whether
3 Note form of ירש infinitive construct with preposition and possessive suffix. םאור 3 (15:8) Note 3fs heavy suffix after prefix/imperfect verb form. What we should אירשנה expect although there are exceptions. (15:9) parse. A little hard to.ה imperative with paragogic לקח Ouch. Note form ק ח ה swift(?). roll, be = עגל heifer under BDB 722a. Root = ע ג ל ה Denominative. = Pual threefold, three years old under BDB 1026a. שלש מ ש ל ש ת 777b. she-goat under BDB = ע ז 17b. ram under BDB = א י ל 1076a. II = turtle-dove (onomatopoeia) under BDB ת ור seize, tear away, = גזל young of birds under BDB 160a. Very rare. Root = ג וז ל rob. (15:10) Somewhat difficult verse because of the syntax not so much the vocabulary. cut in two under BDB 144a. Very rare. Arb batara cut off, extirpate by = בתר cutting. Rare. part, piece under BDB 144a. = ב ת ר 896b. under BDB (קרה = II encounter, befall (apparently a form of קרא 945b. friend, companion under BDB = ר ע 3 As 11:31 d.
4 861b. 4 bird under BDB = צ פ ור (15:11) course! scream, shriek. Of = עיט bird(s) of prey under BDB 743b. Root = ע י ט faint. be exhausted, = פגר corpse, carcass under BDB 803b. Root = פ ג ר So literally he caused to.נשף blow under BDB 674a. Parallel form of = נשב blow. Grammatical note = Terminative ע ל (onto, down upon). The motion of a verb of motion can end on the object of the preposition.ע ל See Williams 287. (15:12) sleep. be in, fall into, heavy = רדם "deep sleep" under BDB 922a. Root = ת ר ד מ ה (Targum!?!). terrify = אים terror, dread under BDB 33b. Root = א ימ ה dark. 5 be, grow = חשך darkness (chiefly poetry) under BDB 365a. Root = ח ש כ ה.נ פ ל ת but נ פ ל ה Qal participle 3fs. Not נפל Note form נ פ ל ת Grammatical note = Concord when subject precedes verb. When the subject precedes the verb, the verb usually has the same gender and number as its subject. See Williams 227. Phew! Good to know. (15:17) thick darkness under BDB 759b. Very rare. From Arb ǵaṭala be = ע ל ט ה cloudy? portable stove or fire-pot under BDB 1072a. LW from Akk tinûru? Some = ת נ ור argue from Persian tanûra. 4. הצפור Thus Leningrad, many manuscripts, editions 5 Gloss?
5 798b. smoke under BDB = ע ש ן torch under BDB 542a. One of my very first papers in graduate school = ל פ יד was on foreign loan-words in Biblical Hebrew. ל פ יד was probably borrowed from Hittite(? Greek?) lampiš. The יד may be an old grammatical ending. cut, = גזר "part" (only plural) under BDB 160b. Here and Psalm 136. Root = ג ז ר divide. (15:18) 625b. stream, river under BDB = נ ה ר 6 מנהר נהר פרת 7 Grammatical note = Appositional genitive. Also called a genitive of proper noun, genitive of apposition, or genitive of association, an appositional genitive is an individual member of the class given by the construct term. The construction has the sense of, for example the river, that is, I mean specifically the Euphrates. This is sometimes grouped with the explicative genitive. See Williams 42a. 6. מנחל Propose 7 Possibly added.