Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Analysis of Lexemes for ‘Rain’ in Biblical Hebrew

Abstract

This research paper presents an analysis of Biblical Hebrew terms for ‘rain’, a relevant corpus formed by six lexemes: 1. ‘rain’, ‘showers’ 2. ‘heavy rain’ 3. ‘autumn rain’ 4. ‘rain’ 5. ‘spring rain’ 6. ‘light rain’ First it defines and explains the method used, then it realizes a distributional analysis into functional languages and a syntagmatic analysis of each lexeme. The second phase proceed in the paradigmatic analysis of the relationship between each lexeme. An explanation of the results and conclusion round off the paper.The purpose of this research is to indagate and understand the complexity of the relationship between lexemes for rain.

Keywords

• Biblical Hebrew
• Functional languages
• Paradigmatic Analysis
• Syntagmatic Analysis
• Sense relations