| 16. Morphological Analysis vayemaher {וַיְמַהֵר | wayyəmāhēr}: and he hurried (vav-consecutive • Piel imperfect third person masculine singular) • Shimei {שִׁמְעִי | šimʿī}: Shimei (proper noun • masculine singular) • ben {בֶן | ben}: son (noun • masculine singular construct) • Gera {גֵּרָא | gerāʾ}: Gera (proper noun • masculine singular) • ben {בֶן | ben}: son (noun • masculine singular construct) • hayemini {הַיְמִינִי | haymīnī}: the Benjamite (noun • masculine singular with definite article and gentilic suffix) • asher {אֲשֶׁר | ’ašer}: who (relative pronoun) • mibachurim {מִבָּחוּרִים | mibbāḥūrīm}: from Bahurim (preposition + proper noun • place name) • vayered {וַיֵּרֶד | wayyēred}: and he went down (vav-consecutive • Qal imperfect third person masculine singular) • im-ish {עִם־אִישׁ | ʿim-ʾīš}: with a man (preposition + noun • masculine singular absolute) • Yehudah {יְהוּדָה | yəhûḏāh}: Judah (proper noun • masculine singular) • likrat {לִקְרַאת | liqrāʾṯ}: to meet (preposition + infinitive construct with directional sense) • hamelech {הַמֶּלֶךְ | hameleḵ}: the king (noun • masculine singular absolute with definite article) • David {דָּוִד | dāwīd}: David (proper noun • masculine singular) |