Clause versus Sentence
- A clause has a subject and a predicate.
- The simplest clause in Scripture is “Yeshua (subject) wept (predicate)”
- An independent clause, such as “Yeshua wept” can be a complete sentence
- A sentence can have more than one clause
- Now after the death of His servant Moses, the LORD spoke to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, saying, “Moses My servant is dead.” (Joshua 1:1)
- There are three clauses in the one sentence
- We’ve used the terms “word-initial” and “word-final” throughout this course. Now we will use “clause-initial” to reference the first word in a clause
- ו is frequently clause-initial