Davar Akher

I have been tagged, with a bizarre meme:

Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. (No cheating!)
Find Page 123.
Find the first 5 sentences.
Post the next 3 sentences.
Tag 5 people.

Fortunately for me, the nearest book happens to be Waltke and O’Connor’s, An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax. It habitually rests on top of a small collection of other books that I have on my desk (a concordance, the KJV, Gesenius’s grammar, the BDB, Arnold and Choi’s guide to syntax, my Peshitta, my Septuagint and my Vulgate). This is fortunate on a number of counts. Firstly, and most obviously, it allows me to post about something of genuine relevance to me; secondly, some of the other books that exist within hands’ reach would have been very difficult to turn into a post of any interest to anybody; and thirdly, the first five sentences on page 123 all constitute examples of verses in the bible, with the following three sentences (exactly) forming a description of a particular grammatical rule, and a neat example of the same. Those three sentences are the following:

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