וּגְדֹלָ֖יו (ū·ḡə·ḏō·lāw) in Jonah 3:7: Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
וּגְדֹלָ֖יו (ū·ḡə·ḏō·lāw) in Jonah 3:7
Source Word
At Jonah 3:7, the Jonah 3:7 source token וּגְדֹלָ֖יו is H1419, Conj-w | Adj-mpc | 3ms. The H1419 Jonah 3:7 BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
And his nobles expresses the coordinated plural officeholders more naturally than and his great ones. The proclamation presents the city's highest ruler and his leading officials together behind the call to fast and turn from violence.
How To Communicate It
Show how great ones becomes nobles through substantival use, then distinguish official association from any claim about each leader's heart.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not translate the adjective as morally great, and do not infer a complete Ninevite government structure from the suffix and conjunction.
- Substantival great ones can denote prominent officials without specifying their titles or institutional powers.
- Read and his nobles within Jonah 3:7 as the H1419 occurrence; broader theology requires the passage.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-nominal
Adjective
Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
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Masculine
Plural
Construct
Waw conjunction
3Ms
This nominal expression has no aspect; it identifies a coordinated authority group within the decree formula.
A masculine plural construct adjective functions as a noun, the suffix supplies his, and waw coordinates the nobles with the king.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The king as the singular reference point whose nobles join him in the decree's stated authority
The official proclamation issued after Nineveh's king responds to Jonah's warning
The waw joins the king and the substantival plural adjective great ones, while the third masculine singular suffix relates the nobles to him.
The adjective does not praise the nobles' character, and conjunction with the king does not establish equal rank, identical motives, or unanimous authorship.
How Much The Form Matters Here
Moderate: The proclamation presents the city's highest ruler and his leading officials together behind the call to fast and turn from violence.
A masculine plural construct adjective functions as a noun, the suffix supplies his, and waw coordinates the nobles with the king.. The waw joins the king and the substantival plural adjective great ones, while the third masculine singular suffix relates the nobles to him.. Attached to the king as the singular reference point whose nobles join him in the decree's stated authority. Governed by the official proclamation issued after Nineveh's king responds to Jonah's warning. The adjective does not praise the nobles' character, and conjunction with the king does not establish equal rank, identical motives, or unanimous authorship.
How does an adjective meaning great become his nobles in Jonah 3:7? The plural adjective functions as a noun for leading people, and its suffix relates those officials to the king.
Direct: And his nobles expresses the coordinated plural officeholders more naturally than and his great ones.
Substantival great ones can denote prominent officials without specifying their titles or institutional powers. The suffix may express association with the king, but it does not reduce the nobles to personal property.
Great ones means virtuous leaders: The form marks prominence and office, not moral quality. and proves equal authority: Coordination places king and nobles in the decree formula without defining their relative powers. morphology replaces literary context: The H1419 form clarifies the and his nobles relation in Jonah 3:7; the surrounding passage establishes its scope.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
At Jonah 3:7, the Jonah 3:7 source token וּגְדֹלָ֖יו is H1419, Conj-w | Adj-mpc | 3ms. The H1419 Jonah 3:7 BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
גָּדוֹל is the lemma behind and his nobles here. Within Jonah 3:7, H1419 retains this exact lexical identity.
A masculine plural construct adjective functions as a noun, the suffix supplies his, and waw coordinates the nobles with the king.
The proclamation presents the city's highest ruler and his leading officials together behind the call to fast and turn from violence.
Jonah 3 includes rulers in Nineveh's public humbling while stressing that God responds to the people's actual turning from evil.
Show how great ones becomes nobles through substantival use, then distinguish official association from any claim about each leader's heart.
Do not translate the adjective as morally great, and do not infer a complete Ninevite government structure from the suffix and conjunction.