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Hendiadys in the Old Testament

Hendiadys, which is a Greek expression, is a rhetorical device in which a complex idea is expressed by two substantives joined by a conjunction instead of by a substantive qualified by an adjective (The Free Dictionary). In The Scriptures we can find the hendiadys in a few places. The first appearance is in Genesis 23:4, [...]

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