The Participle

The participle shares characteristics with nouns and with verbs.  Like nouns, the participle has gender, number, definiteness, and case. Like verbs, the participle can take an object, has voice (active/passive), has tense (determined by context), and has aspect. However, it must be kept in mind that the participle in biblical Hebrew (and in other Semitic languages, likeContinue reading “The Participle”