Search for all predicate adjectives in OT. The Anderson-Forbes text would be good. Thanks

Could someone help me with a search to find all (Hebrew) predicate adjectives in OT. Anderson-Forbes text would be fine.

Thanks,

Rod

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Dave Hooton

It can only be done in a Syntax Search with Andersen-Forbes. I'm not a student of Hebrew grammar, so trust that the Direct Object holds the predicate

Rod Rogers

Thanks for your reply Dave. I was hoping you would look into this for me. As I understand the Hebrew predicate adjective, the noun preceding the adjective has the article (Hey) and the predicate adjective does not have the article (Hey). If both noun and adjective agree in gender, number and definiteness then it is an attributive adjective. It is the lack of the definite article that indicates the predicate adjective. I hope this helps. You may not know Hebrew but you seem to know a lot about Logos. Thanks.

Rod Rogers

I've tried to search the Andersen-Forbes text but have yet to come up with a search that will produce hits. I'm going to read the Systematic Glossary to Andersen-Forbes and see if that will shed some light on this search. I have watched Mike Missler's videos and they helped (Got me started with the right text) but I'm still doing something wrong.

Dave Hooton

I've tried to search the Andersen-Forbes text but have yet to come up with a search that will produce hits.

Supply some examples. I've got Ex 9:24; Lev 13:43; 1 Kings 8:65

Dave Hooton

It looks like Andersen-Forbes Hebrew has a problem with adjectives.

LHB ----> 537 results in 172 verses

<LogosMorphHeb ~ A> BEFORE 1 CHARS <LogosMorphHeb ~ N?????> BEFORE 2 CHARS <LogosMorphHeb ~ J????>

BHS/WIVU ----> 531 results in 170 verses

<WIVUMorphHeb ~ A> BEFORE 1 CHARS <WIVUMorphHeb ~ N????> BEFORE 2 CHARS <WIVUMorphHeb ~ J???>

Andersen-Forbes ---> 40 results in 19 verses

<AFMorphHeb ~ N?????H?> BEFORE 2 CHARS <AFMorphHeb ~ N?J?????>

We use CHARACTER (CHARS) spacing because the article is a prefix to Hebrew words i.e. 1 CHARS before the noun. To avoid it for the adjective add 1 character for the space between noun and adjective i.e. 2 CHARS.

AF has a parameter for "definite with article", so I used that with the Noun (adjectives are part of the Noun family).

Rod Rogers

In Isaiah 7:14 I believe the word הָרָה is functioning as a predicate adjective. Most versions translate this predicate adjective as future. What I want to do is to find all, or most predicate adjectives in the Old Testament and see how they are translated. I see this as a present "is pregnant" case, but I'd like to see all the predicate adjectives and study them to see if there is agreement or disagreement between different authors and early text verses later written text. That's my premise. How to accomplish that has seemed to be more of a trial that I think it should be.

I know that there are several texts similar to Isaiah 7:14 in grammar. I'm not looking for a few texts. I am looking for all the occurrences or nearly all occurrences. I seem to be able to search AFAT but unable to do a query in AFAT. Not sure why. When ever I click the query tab the SBLGNT is the only text that logos allows me to morph or syntax search.

I have found an interesting resource in logos (Hebrew Grammatical Constructions: Dataset Documentation) which my produce the results I'm looking for but I'll have to wade through that before I can comment on it.

Thanks to all who have helped.