Lesson 8 | Infinitives
Assignment
Instructions
Use the cheat sheet to mark the Hebrew text with circles, highlights, and zigzag underlines for the elements you have learned: Non-prefix conjunctions
Participles in any stem
Perfect form verbs in any stem
Imperfect form verbs in any stem
Commands in any stem
Infinitives in any stem
Translate the text using the helps under each verse.
The context of this passage is that Daniel has understood that the period of Judah’s exile would end soon, and so he begs the Lord for mercy, confessing his people’s sins in a beautiful prayer. The angel Gabriel comes to him, and it is he who is the subject of the first verb in verse 22.
Markup conjunctions, participles, perfects, imperfects, commands, and infinitives.
Helps
Markup conjunctions, participles, perfects, imperfects, commands, and infinitives.
Helps
תְּחִלָּה — “beginning”
תַּחֲנוּן — “supplication for favor”
חָמַד — “precious treasure”
בִּין — In the stem of the second occurrence of this verb, it has a similar meaning as in the qal stem; find a synonym so you don’t translate the verb identically in both stems.
מַרְאֶה — Gabriel has a specific kind of “sight” in mind, which Daniel experiences several times in this book.
Markup conjunctions, participles, perfects, imperfects, commands, and infinitives.
Helps
שָׁבוּעַ — “period of seven”
חָתַךְ — “determine”
כָּלָא — This verb means “restrain,” but many translations interpret this as an alternate spelling of כָּלָה, which you’ve just learned in Lesson 7. Follow the latter.
פֶּשַׁע — “transgression”
חָתַם — “seal up”; You should be able to parse this word and the next even though there are no vowels, because the Masoretes thought the word should be read differently then written. We will talk about this in a future lesson, since you will see it many times in the Hebrew text, and Biblearc normally marks what should be read, although it doesn’t here.
חָזוֹן — “vision”
מָשַׁח — “anoint”
Markup conjunctions, participles, perfects, imperfects, commands, and infinitives.
Helps
וְתַשְׂכֵּ֜ל — The sense here is “have insight.”
מֹצָא — “going forth” (a noun)
מָשִׁיחַ — “anointed”
נָגִיד — “prince”
תָּשׁוּב֙ — This verb is referring to “Jerusalem.”
רְחֹב — “plaza”
חֲרוּץ — “moat”
צוֹק — “distress”
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