Week 3 · Lesson 3.6

The Intake · Liturgical Decoding

Liturgical text · tap a word to hear it

Kiddush:

Deconstruction

Map repeated noun-heavy structures to modern descriptive sentence patterns.

Line-by-line breakdown · 5
  • יוֹם הַשִּׁשִּׁי — 'the sixth day' — uses the ordinal שִׁשִּׁי, an adjective agreeing with masculine יוֹם.
  • וַיְכֻלּוּ ('and they were finished') is a vav-consecutive past form — the Biblical construction you meet head-on in Week 9.
  • הַשָּׁמַיִם וְהָאָרֶץ — 'the heavens and the earth' — שָׁמַיִם is a fixed dual/plural; note the ה on both nouns joined by וְ.
  • וְכָל צְבָאָם — 'and all their host' — כָּל ('all of') governs a noun in the construct relationship (previewed in Week 7).
  • Track every definite article (ה) and conjunction (ו) carried over from Weeks 1 and 4.