SUBJECT AND OBJECT SENTENCE
§ 146. It is usually only clauses containing an infin. that are subject, and mostly to a nominal pred. (§ 90, R. 1). In a few cases a clause introduced by כִּֽי, אֲשֶׁר that, is the subj. to a nominal sent., 2 S. 18:3, Lam. 3:27, Ecc. 5:4 (all with pred. good, better).
The object sent. is mostly introduced by כִּי that, and may be nominal or verbal. 1 S. 3:8 וַיָּֽבֶן עֵלִי כִּי י׳ קֹרֵא לַנַּעַר and E. perceived that Je. was calling the child, Gen. 3:11; 6:5. — Gen. 8:11 וַיֵּדַע כִּי קַלּוּ הַמַּיִם knew that the waters were abated; 15:8; 16:4; 29:12; in a long sent. כי repeated, 1 K. 20:31. — Not so commonly in earlier books, but often in later, אֲשֶׁר that. 1 S. 18:15 וַיַּרְא אֲשֶׁר הוּא מַשְׂכִּיל מְאֹד and S. saw that he prospered greatly. Ex. 11:7, Deu. 1:31, 1 K. 22:16, Is. 38:7, Jer. 28:9, Ex. 20:26, Neh. 8:14, 15, Est. 3:4; 4:11; 6:2, Ecc. 6:10; 7:29; 9:1, Dan. 1:8. Also אֵת אֲשֶׁר the fact, circumstance that, how that. 2 K. 20:3 זְכָר־נא אֵת אֲשֶׁר הִתְהַלַּכְּתִּי remember how that I have walked. 2 S. 11:20 הֲלוֹא יְדַעְתֶּם אֵת אֲשֶׁר־יׄרוּ that they would shoot? Deu. 9:7, Jos. 2:10, 1 S. 2:22; 24:19. So. את כל אשׁר, 1 K. 19:1 וְאֵת כָּל־אֲשֶׁר הָרַג how all he had slain.
It is common for the logical subj. of the object sent. to be attracted as obj. into the governing clause. Gen. 49:15 וַיַּרְא אְנֻחָה כִּי טוֹב he saw rest that it was good (that rest was). 1 K. 5:17 יָדַעְתָּ אֶת־דָּוִד אָבִי כִּי לֹא יָכֹל that my father D. was unable. Gen. 31:5, Ex. 2:2, 2 S. 17:8. Gen. 1:4, 31, Nu. 32:23.
Rem. 1. After the verb say, &c., the words of the speaker are often quoted directly. Gen. 12:12 וְאָֽמְרוּ אִשְׁתּוֹ זֹאת they shall say, “this is his wife,” v. 19; 20:2, 13; 26:7; 43:7, Jud. 9:48, 1 S. 10:19, 2 S. 3:13, 1 K. 2:8, Ps. 10:11. Or with some equivalent for say, Ps. 10:4 “there is no
