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I am sure someone might have asked this, however, I tried but couldn't find it in this forum. So, I apologised if this has been asked in this forum before.

 

I am studying Hebrew this year, and just want to ask how can I find all the wawConsecutive verbs in a given passage or chapter of a book using Accordance?

 

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Ferdinand

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Hi, Ferdinand. Such a search is easy. From your Hebrew bible entry box, just select Verb from the Search -> Enter Tag menu. In the dialog box, select 'waw consecutive' from the Aspect menu and click OK.

 

This will find them across the entire text. To limit your search to a particular passage, add a Range. This can be done a variety of ways, but your easiest option may be to use Search -> Enter Command -> RANGE, and then type in your passage.

 

You'll end up with a search that looks like this:

 

‏ ‎[VERB wawConsecutive]‏ ‎[RANGE Gen 6]‏

 

 

I hope this helps!

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First of all, to you Joel as Administrator. I would like to ask another question re Original Languages. Now how do I know if this particular post is finished with? I do not want to interrupt, as it were, Ferdinand's question/topic. Actually the question and the answer were of a help to me.

 

Hoping not to do so, here is my own question for anybody who has the time to answer:

 

How can I find if the following phrase exists in the Bible - I have tried my search with Hebrew letters (עוקד ונעקד) and with English letters (oked ve ne'ekad). All I could find was the Hebrew root (עקד) Now it could be that the phrase does not exist in the Bible or I am not doing the search correctly.

 

Thank you,

 

Kevin.


Sorry, those Hebrew letters have not come out very clearly; I hope someone can read them!

 

Kevin.

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There is no such word as ne'ekad. What are you looking for? Is it the word for streaked, ayin, qof, dalet?

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Thank you Helen for your reply. I did find the word ayin, qof, dalet in Genesis 22:9 translated as 'bound' and in Gen 30:35 translated as 'striped' (that could be streaked in the translation you used). Maybe the phrase I was looking for is not in the Bible; I perhaps came across it in connection with Rosh Hashanah!

 

Thanks again for trying,

 

Kevin.

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Kevin:

In regards to Rosh Hashanah, the word which is used to describe the "binding of Isaac" is AKEDAH but this word does not appear in the Tanach. The Akedah is the synagogue Scriptural reading for the Second Day of Rosh Hashanah On Rosh Hashanah we ask God in our prayers to remember the binding of Isaac and Abraham's zeal to perform God's will, and we beseach God to ascribe Abraham and Isaac's actions to our merit when He judges us on the High Holydays. The rabbinic term for this is "zechut avot" meaning the merit of the ancestors.

 

Isaac is described by the Rabbis as נעקד על המזבח the one who is bound to the altar;however, this word נעקד( with the sense of being tied up) does not appear in the Tanach either.

 

The only place that this root appears with the meaning "bound" is in Gen 22:9 referring to Abraham's binding of Isaac :

‏ וַיָּבֹ֗אוּ אֶֽל־הַמָּקוֹם֮ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אָֽמַר־ל֣וֹ הָאֱלֹהִים֒ וַיִּ֨בֶן שָׁ֤ם אַבְרָהָם֙ אֶת־הַמִּזְבֵּ֔חַ וַֽיַּעֲרֹ֖ךְ אֶת־הָעֵצִ֑ים וַֽיַּעֲקֹד֙ אֶת־יִצְחָ֣ק בְּנ֔וֹ וַיָּ֤שֶׂם אֹתוֹ֙ עַל־הַמִּזְבֵּ֔חַ מִמַּ֖עַל לָעֵצִֽים׃

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Thank you very much indeed Gordon. This has been very helpful and quite fascinating. I have just spotted it but at 10:51 pm here in Vienna. So I shall take a closer look tomorrow and get back to you if I may.

 

Kevin.

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