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For a very full discussion of this phenomenon, see Robert Holmstedt, "Historical Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew", in Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew, ed. by C.L. Miller-Naudé and Z. … So, no -- the use of this particle is not necessarily a pointer to lateness in biblical Hebrew usage. …

See also p. 269 of Geoffrey Khan's discussion of pronominal suffixes from the Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, ed G. Khan et al. (Brill, 2013), Vol. 3, pp.267-272. …

The "traditional" handling of Exodus 20:3-4 (in the numbering of the standard English translations) -- that the current v. 4 is its own clause/sentence, distinct from v. 3 -- ought to be followed for …

As OP notes, the New Testament's Βεελζεβούλ [Beelzebul] appears to come -- somehow -- from the Hebrew Bible's (Christian Old Testament's) בַּעַל זְבוּב [baʿal zĕbûb], "Lord of the flies".a Two specific … questions are posed: Is Beelzeboul a term derived from the Hebrew Bible, and if so how? …

Just a small postscript to the accepted answer: the only other passage in the Hebrew Bible where the full idiom of 1 Sam 3:19 (נפל + דְּבָרִים + אָרְצָה) is found, is in 2 Kings 10:10: [NASB] Know …

Using these terms consistently helps in looking at how the Hebrew Bible formulates its reference to divinity. … To see monotheism (as defined above) in the Hebrew Bible, we need to look elsewhere.1 2. …

This is not the "same word" repeated and used in different ways. These are homonyms, i.e., two different words: the first אֶת־ is the sign of the definite direct object (= I. אֵת at link -- as discu …

(n.b. - this is 21:32 in the Hebrew text). That appears to be the sum total of them. … Is this just an extension of the Hebrew habit of repeating things (usually twice) for "emphasis"? …

The links are for the pages of the Brown, Driver & Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon which, although quite old, is reliable for entries like these. …

Context of Ps 68:11-13 (These are verses 12-14 in Hebrew; I'll try to keep clear which enumeration I'm using as we move along.) … Muraoka, A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew (Rome: Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 2006), p. 244: A very small number [of singular masculine nouns] have a feminine ending, e.g. …

The "Masoretic Text" of the Hebrew Bible includes as part of its "mark up" a set of marginal readings known to the Torah scholars who transmitted the text in that form. … See also: Gesenius-Kautzsch-Cowley, Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar (2nd edn; Clarendon Press, 1910), at § 17c, p. 66 for technical explanation and further examples. G. …

Callaham, Modality and the Biblical Hebrew Infinitive Absolute (Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010), p. 68. …

A note on distribution: dəbîr appears 17 times in the Hebrew Bible, and eight (!) … Burney wrote in his Notes on the Hebrew Text of the Books of Kings (Oxford, 1903), pp. 70-71: The word דביר ... doubtless denotes the back or innermost room of the Temple. …

Hebrew שַׁבָּת (šabbāt) occurs 112x in 90 verses of the Hebrew Bible. … The variations in Leviticus each have other nuances, and the one in 2 Kings 16:18 presents a textual critical issue (translator "saw" the Hebrew consonants, but understood a different Hebrew term being …

It's not in the Hebrew. … It's hard even to work out how the GT's English can "map" back on to the Hebrew text. …