Overview Uses of Uses of Summary of the Verbal Uses of Uses of

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6.4 Narrative Time and the Hebrew Verbal System

6.4.1 Time and

WAYYIQTOL Sequences 6.4.1.1 PROGRESSION 6.4.1.2 EXPANSION 6.4.1.3 COMPRESSION 6.4.1.4 RAPID SUCCESSION 6.4.1.5 INCLUSION 6.4.1.6 REGRESSION 6.4.1.7 CONCLUSION

6.4.2 Summary

PART III: Syntactic, Semantic, And Discourse-Pragmatic Analysis of Chapter 7 Distributional Analysis of

7.1 Introduction

7.2 The Distribution of

7.2.1 Charting the Distribution

7.2.2 The Relationship of Distribution and Genre

7.3 Summary

Chapter 8 The Verbal Uses of

8.1 Overview

8.2 Uses of

as the Main Verb in Independent Clauses

8.2.1 The

EQUATIVE Use of 8.2.1.1 To be 8.2.1.2 “And it was so…” 8.2.1.3 “And that’s the way it happened…” 8.2.1.4 Territorial Expressions 8.2.1.5 The Formulaic Expression 8.2.1.5.1 Occurrences of in Genesis, Samuel-Kings, and Chronicles 8.2.1.5.2 Occurrences of in Isaiah 8.2.1.5.3 Occurrences of in Jeremiah 8.2.1.5.4 Occurrences of in Ezekiel 8.2.1.5.5 Occurrences of in Jonah 8.2.1.5.6 Occurrences of in Haggai 8.2.1.5.7 Occurrences of in Zechariah 8.2.1.5.8 Variations of the standard Occurrences of

8.2.1.5.9 Analytical Summary of the

FORMULAIC Use of viii 8.2.1.6 Expressions of Age 8.2.1.6.1 Age: + S + 8.2.1.6.2 “The days of… were”: + N + NUM 8.2.1.6.3 Other References to Age, but without 8.2.1.7 Quantity 8.2.1.7.1 Quantity Statements 8.2.1.7.2 Reference to a Number with 8.2.1.7.3 Reference to Weight with 8.2.1.8 With Prepositions 8.2.1.8.1 With 8.2.1.8.2 With 8.2.1.8.3 With 8.2.1.8.4 With 8.2.1.8.5 With Indicating Comparison 8.2.1.8.6 With Indicating Possession 8.2.1.8.7 With Meaning “became” 8.2.1.8.8 With Meaning “became” and Indicating Possession 8.2.1.8.9 With Indicating Distribution 8.2.1.8.10 With Followed by Infinitive Construct

8.2.1.8.11 With

8.2.1.8.12 With 8.2.1.8.13 With 8.2.1.8.14 With 8.2.1.8.15 With 8.2.1.8.16 With 8.2.1.9 Analytical Summary of the EQUATIVE Use of 8.2.2 The EXISTENTIAL Use of 8.2.2.1 EXISTENTIAL Occurrences of 8.2.2.2 Analytical Summary of the EXISTENTIAL Use of 8.2.3 The DEICTIC Use of 8.2.3.1 DEICTIC Occurrences of 8.2.3.2 Analytical Summary of the DEICTIC Use of 8.2.4 The DESCRIPTIVE Use of 8.2.4.1 DESCRIPTIVE Occurrences of 8.2.4.2 Analytical Summary of the DESCRIPTIVE Use of

8.3 Uses of

as an Auxiliary Verb

8.3.1 Occurrences as an Auxiliary

8.3.2 Analytical Summary of the Uses of

as an Auxiliary Verb

8.4 Summary of the Verbal Uses of

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8.5 Uses of

8.5.1 Verbal Uses of

8.5.1.1 EQUATIVE Uses of 8.5.1.1.1 As Auxiliary Verb with Participle 8.5.1.1.2 Quantity 8.5.1.1.2.1 Basic Quantity Statements with 8.5.1.1.2.2 “All the days of…” 8.5.1.1.2.3 Period of time 8.5.1.1.3 With Prepositions 8.5.1.1.3.1 With 8.5.1.1.3.2 With 8.5.1.1.3.3 With Indicating Comparison 8.5.1.1.3.4 With Indicating Possession 8.5.1.1.3.5 With Meaning “became” 8.5.1.1.3.6 With Meaning “became” and Indicating Possession 8.5.1.1.3.7 With Meaning “for”

8.5.1.1.3.8 With

8.5.1.1.3.9 With 8.5.1.2 DEICTIC Uses of 8.5.1.3 DESCRIPTIVE Uses of 8.5.1.3.1 DESCRIPTIVE with ADJECTIVE COMPLEMENT 8.5.1.3.2 DESCRIPTIVE with QAL PASSIVE

8.5.1.4 Summary of the Uses of

Chapter 9 The Temporal Uses of