Hebraisms in the Book of Mormon
Hebraisms:
1. And it came to pass = vayahi, literary marker used because Hebrew didnt have punctuation. KJV has "and it was so" "and it happened" "thus" "and" similar to bofm.
2. Plural Amplification: plural nouns like bloodsheds, condescentions mights, etc (see Abel "bloods").
3. Seidel's Law = inversion of quotations Ez 34:27/Lev 26:4. Alma 5:19/Psalm 34:3.
4. Cognate Accusative: dreamed a dream, worked a work, built a building
5. Prophecy in Past Tense = as if it already happened (see Jarom 1:11)
6. Chiasmus, = DCBABCD construction.
7. Anapodoton = Alma 36:9 "If thou wilt of thyself be destroyed, seek no more to destroy the church of God." interrupted fragment sentences.
8. If-And conditionals.
9. Dramatic prophecy: acting out prophecy.
10. creating names by suffixing -on to the tri-consonantal root. Jershon = y-r-sh = "to inherit". (Yerusha).
11. Merismus: list, ABCDEF. summerized AEF (2 Ne 33:4).
12. Numbers:1 Nephi 3:31, command fifty.
13. Colophones: I, Nephi
14. Antenantiosis: "despise not the revelations of God" (Jacob 4:8) emphasize by opposite. "if ye do this, and endure to the end, ye will in nowise be cast out" (Mormon 9:29),
15. Preposition instead of Adverb: "with patience" instead of patiently (Mosiah 24:15)
"with much harshness" instead of very harshly (1 Nephi 18:11).
16. Because-That Clause: Because/that, after/that. before/that. "And because that they are redeemed from the fall" (2 Nephi 2:26)
Donald Perry from BYU has a book listing 30 destinct categories. This list comes from a combination of sources like FAIR, Maxwell Institute and Book of Mormon Central.
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