Hebrew Parallelism

Pronomial Suffix

Pronomial Suffix examples from the Book of Mormon

Pronomial Suffix is where a pronoun (his, her, their, etc) precedes a noun. In English, we might say 'his house' or 'her car.'.

But in English, if the person has many items, one pronoun serves all the objects, like 'her car, dog and husband.'.

Hebrew differs from English.
Hebrew requires the pronoun before each noun if the objects are separate and distinct.
For instance, Hebrew would not be the English 'her car, dog and husband' but 'her car, her dog and her husband.' .
In this way, the pronoun is repeated before each noun. Scholars call this 'Pronomial Suffix.' .
Who would have known this?
Yet, the Book of Mormon has many examples of 'Pronomial Suffix.'.

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1 Nephi 5:19
 And it came to pass that we did travel for the space of many days, slaying food by the way with our bows and our arrows and our stones and our slings.
(LDS: 1 Nephi 16:15)

2 Nephi 6:83 And whoso knocketh, to him will He open; And the wise and the learned and they that are rich, which are puffed up because of their learning and their wisdom and their riches, yea, they are they whom He despiseth; 
(LDS: 2 Nephi 9:42)

2 Nephi 11:75 And they sell themselves for naught, For, for the reward of their pride and their foolishness, they shall reap destruction; 
(LDS: 2 Nephi 26:10)

2 Nephi 11:96 He doeth not anything, save it be for the benefit of the world, For He loveth the world, even that He layeth down His own life that He may draw all men unto Him
(LDS: 2 Nephi 26:24)

Mosiah 6:53 And thus they have taught their children that they should hate them and that they should murder them and that they should rob and plunder them and do all they could to destroy them; Therefore, they have an eternal hatred toward the children of Nephi. 
(LDS: Mosiah 10:17)

Mosiah 7:6 And he laid a tax of one fifth part of all they possessed: A fifth part of their gold and of their silver, And a fifth part of their ziff and of their copper and of their brass and their iron, And a fifth part of their fatlings, And also a fifth part of all their grain
(LDS: Mosiah 11:3)

Mosiah 10:11 And we will depart with our women and our childrenour flocks and our herds into the wilderness, And we will travel around the Land of Shilom." 
(LDS: Mosiah 22:8)

Mosiah 11:72 And they gave thanks to God, Yea, all their men and all their women and all their children that could speak lifted their voices in the praises of their God. 
(LDS: Mosiah 24:22)

Alma 1:103 Now the heads of the Lamanites were shorn, And they were naked, save it were skin which was girded about their loins, And also their armor which was girded about them, and their bows and their arrows, and their stones and their slings, etc. 
(LDS: Alma 3:5)

Alma 8:16-Alma 8:17
"For behold, he hath blessed mine house; He hath blessed me and my women and my children and my father and my kinsfolk,
Yea, even all my kindred hath he blessed; And the blessing of the Lord hath rested upon us according to the words which he spake."
(LDS: Alma 10:11)

Alma 12:11 Nevertheless, they departed out of the Land of Zarahemla and took their swords and their spears and their bows and their arrows and their slings
(LDS: Alma 17:7)

Alma 13:79 And thus the Nephites in their wisdom, with their guards and their armies, had hemmed in the Lamanites on the south, That thereby they should have no more possession on the north, that they might not overrun the Land Northward; 
(LDS: Alma 22:33)

Alma 16:95 Now it came to pass that after Alma and his brethren and his sons had heard these prayers, they were astonished beyond all measure, 
(LDS: Alma 31:19)

Alma 26:133 And we did take courage with our small force which we had received, And were fixed with a determination to conquer our enemies and to maintain our lands and our possessions and our wives and our children and the cause of our liberty
(LDS: Alma 58:12)

3 Nephi 1:50 Yea, and also to maintain their rights, and their privileges of their church, and of their worship, and their freedom and their liberty
(LDS: 3 Nephi 2:12)

3 Nephi 2:30 And they had taken their horses and their chariots and their cattle and all their flocks and their herds and their grain and all their substance
(LDS: 3 Nephi 3:22)

3 Nephi 14:2 "Turn, all ye Gentiles, from your wicked ways! And repent of your evil doings - of your lyings and deceivings, and your whoredoms, and of your secret abominations, and your idolatries, and of your murders, and your priestcrafts, and your envyings, and your strifes, and from all your wickedness and abominations - 
(LDS: 3 Nephi 30:2)