Morphology search results

2,685 verses for Imperative

4,332 matching word occurrences — a verse can contain more than one

Imperative — A direct command (“write!”).

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Counts are distinct verses.

Torah 531 verses · 20% of matching verses · 0.8× baseline
Former Prophets 626 verses · 23% of matching verses · 1.3× baseline
Latter Prophets 667 verses · 25% of matching verses · 1.2× baseline
Writings 861 verses · 32% of matching verses · 0.9× baseline

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Morphology search: Imperative. Hebrew Old Testament (Open Scriptures morphhb, Westminster Leningrad Codex). 2,685 verses. Lemma, https://lemma.gebible.app/morphology?aspect=Imperative.

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@misc{lemma-grammar-hebrew-imperative,
  author       = {Lemma},
  title        = {Morphology search: Imperative — Hebrew Old Testament (Open Scriptures morphhb, Westminster Leningrad Codex)},
  howpublished = {\url{https://lemma.gebible.app/morphology?aspect=Imperative}},
  note         = {2,685 verses. Grammar tagging: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb), based on the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool}
}

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Imperative — A direct command (“write!”).

The Noun type facet filters proper, common, and gentilic nouns, but morphology search can’t find a specific name (e.g. “Abraham”) — there’s no word-level English-to-original alignment. To find a specific name, look it up in the Strong’s lexicon or the Septuagint word index.

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What these categories mean

Adjective: A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Adverb: A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Conjunction: A joining word (e.g. “and,” “but”) linking words or clauses.
Noun: A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Particle: A short function word — article, negation, interrogative, the sign of the direct object, and the like.
Preposition: A relational word (e.g. “in,” “to,” “from”) governing a noun.
Pronoun: A word standing in for a noun (“he,” “this,” “who”).
Verb: An action or state-of-being word.

Common: A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
Proper: A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Gentilic: A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).

Qal: The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Niphal: Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”).
Piel: An intensive or resultative active stem.
Pual: The passive counterpart of the Piel.
Hiphil: The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).
Hophal: The passive counterpart of the Hiphil (“he was caused to…”).
Hithpael: The reflexive or reciprocal stem (the subject acts on itself).
Qal Passive: An archaic passive of the Qal, preserved in a few forms.
Polel: A stem of hollow/geminate roots functioning like the Piel — intensive active.
Polal: The passive counterpart of the Polel.
Hithpolel: The reflexive counterpart of the Polel.
Pilpel: A reduplicated intensive stem of two-letter or hollow roots.

Perfect: A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
Imperfect: An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Sequential Perfect: A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
Sequential Imperfect: An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
Imperative: A direct command (“write!”).
Participle: A verbal adjective — OSHB splits these into Active and Passive, and this option matches both.
Participle Active: A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
Participle Passive: A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
Infinitive: A verbal noun — OSHB splits these into Absolute and Construct, and this option matches both.
Infinitive Absolute: An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
Infinitive Construct: A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
Cohortative: A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
Jussive: A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).

Absolute: The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Construct: A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Determined: A noun marked definite — in Aramaic, the emphatic state.

1st Person: The speaker (“I / we”).
2nd Person: The one addressed (“you”).
3rd Person: The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).

Masculine: Grammatically masculine.
Feminine: Grammatically feminine.
Common: Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Both: Attested as both masculine and feminine.

Singular: One.
Dual: Exactly two — for natural pairs and some measures of time.
Plural: More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).

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