Hebrew Construct Searches for A-Class Segholate Nouns With Waw Consecutive Verbs

While studying Genesis 21:14, I noticed 2 different A-Class Segholate nouns in the verse that either preceded or followed a Waw Consecutive verb. I then wanted to see how often this pattern occurs in the Hebrew Bible and here is the power of Accordance:

1. Using the ETCBC Hebrew text, I set up two construct searches, the first construct search looks for a Hebrew Segholate noun that precedes a Waw conjunction followed by a Waw Consecutive verb:

2. Then a second construct search that has a Waw conjunction preceding a Waw Consecutive verb followed by Segholate noun:

3. Both construct searches are linked to my Hebrew ETCBC text in the search window, I hit ENTER and the results show up in my analysis window:

4. I then open a second tab next to my Hebrew text with my favorite English text, the LSB and then I use the TEXT command to link my English text with my two Hebrew construct searches and link them together with the OR command and hit ENTER and now I can read the results in English with my Hebrew text:

And now you have just used Accordance to search and find all of the A-Class Segholate nouns occurring before or after Waw Consecutive verbs. It really is amazing what Accordance can do in finding these amazing patterns in the original languages!

Brian Leathers

September 01, 2026 21:30 Edited

So to follow up on this particular search, I began wondering, what are the Greek equivalents to these nouns and verbs in the LXX. Accordance did not disappoint! Here is what I did:

Launched Rahlf's LXX in a new tab, then I linked a Greek construct search and used the TEXT command in the construct and put in the Hebrew nouns, conjunctions, and verbs that I was looking for: