B-Hebrew: The Biblical Hebrew Forum

These two verses constitute a single sentence, which is one of the longer sentences that I've seen in biblical Hebrew.

God said to Solomon: “Because this was with your heart and you did not ask for wealth, possessions, honor, the life of those who hate you, nor did you ask for many days (long life), but you asked for yourself wisdom and knowledge that you might judge my people over whom I have made you king, wisdom and knowledge are given you, and also wealth, possessions, and honor shall I give you, like no king before you had and like none after you will have.”

That's a long sentence with complicated syntax!

Have you come across any sentences longer than this, with clauses for explanation (“because...”) and purpose (“in order that”) and result (“I will do x”), etc.??

By the way, we now have a transliteration tag [​tl] to make transliteration more aesthetic.

For example, will yield bərēʾšîṯ (בְּרֵאשִׁית). Feel free to use the tag on transliterated text. It's set to Gentium Plus and will default to any serif font, which should look better for transliteration. Hope you enjoy!

Thanks to Kirk for getting that set up!