Agent – your hebrew tutor

Ruth 1:11d

Other examples of the vav+perfect showing purpose include Gen. 35:5; 1 Sam 25:21; 1 Kings 2:31; 13:3.

For more on the “missing” dagesh lene, see Gesenius-Kautzsch §21.

In this video I introduce verbal clauses and explain how they differ in meaning from nominal clauses.