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Functioning as a verb, adverb, adjective, or noun, the infinitive absolute serves as an element of Biblical Hebrew grammar for which no analogous component exists in modern Indo-European languages such as English. The most frequent employment of the infinitive absolute is in "pa…

“The Use of the Infinitive Absolute in the Hebrew Bible,” a dissertation supervised by Stephen A. Kaufman, classifies the over eight-hundred occurrences of the infinitive absolute in the Hebrew Bible into six main categories. In addition, Septuagintal renderings of the infinitiv…