| 15. Morphological Analysis vayehi {וַיְהִי | va-yĭ-hî}: and it came to pass (vav-consecutive • Qal imperfect • third-person masculine singular) • bayyom {בַּיּוֹם | bā-y-yôm}: on the day (preposition + masculine singular noun with definite article) • hashvi’i {הַשְּׁבִיעִי | haš-šĕ-wî-ʿî}: the seventh (definite article + ordinal masculine singular) • vayomru {וַיֹּאמְרוּ | va-yō-mə-rû}: and they said (vav-consecutive • Qal imperfect • third-person masculine plural) • leeshet-shimshon {לְאֵשֶׁת־שִׁמְשׁוֹן | lə-ʾê-šet-šim-šôn}: to Samson’s wife (preposition + construct phrase + proper noun) • pati {פַּתִּי | paṭ-ṭî}: entice (Piel imperative • feminine singular) • et-ishekh {אֶת־אִישֵׁךְ | ʾet-ʾî-šê-ḵ}: your husband (direct object marker + noun + second-person feminine singular suffix) • veyagged-lanu {וְיַגֶּד־לָנוּ | wə-ya-ggēd-lā-nû}: and let him tell us (vav-consecutive • Hif‘il imperfect • third-person masculine singular + first-person common plural suffix) • et-hachidah {אֶת־הַחִידָה | ʾet-ha-ḥid-dâ}: the riddle (direct object marker + noun with definite article) • pen-nisrof {פֶּן־נִשְׂרֹף | pən-nis-rôp}: lest we burn (particle + Qal imperfect • first-person common plural) • othakh {אוֹתָךְ | ʾō-ṯā-ḵ}: you (feminine singular direct object suffix) • ve-et-beit {וְאֶת־בֵּית | wə-ʾet-bêyt}: and the house of (conjunction + direct object marker + construct noun) • avikh {אָבִיךְ | ʾā-ḥî-ḵ}: your father (noun + second-person feminine singular suffix) • ba-esh {בָּאֵשׁ | bā-ʾêš}: with fire (preposition + noun) • hal-yarshenu {הַלְיָרְשֵׁנוּ | hal-yār-šē-nû}: to impoverish us (interrogative particle + Hif‘il infinitive construct + first-person common plural suffix) • keratem {קְרָאתֶם | qə-rā-tem}: you called (Qal perfect • second-person masculine plural) • lanu {לָנוּ | lā-nû}: to us (preposition + first-person common plural suffix) • halo {הֲלֹא | hă-lōʾ}: is it not? (interrogative particle) |