Targum Molcho

Biblical Hebrew · Nouns, Describing Words, Number, and “X of Y”

Words of sages

BH-057Biblical HebrewMasoretic Hebrew of Tanakh

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE FIRST

דִּבְרֵי חֲכָמִים

Transliterationdivrei ḥakhamim

Plain meaningwords of sages

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Words of sages

Plural nouns also change in construct. דְּבָרִים, “words/things,” appears as דִּבְרֵי when directly linked to the following noun. The relationship must be read as a unit: “words of sages.”

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דִּבְרֵי חֲכָמִים
ORIGINAL

BH-057

divrei ḥakhamim
READING

Approved transliteration

words of sages
MEANING

Biblical Hebrew

REMEMBER

Construct changes can affect plural endings as well as singular nouns.