Participles

A participle is one of the three kinds of verbals (cf. finite verb). Participles are often identified by their ending -ing; running, hitting, studying, etc. Participles are called “verbal adjectives” since they look like verbs but function like adjectives.

In English, there are both present and past participles; see this video.

Greek:

Greek participles are similar to English participles. Greek participles are easily recognized by the participle morpheme which marks them out as participles. To analyze a participle, start by checking to see if it is articular.

Hebrew:

Start your study of Hebrew participles, by making sure you understand English participles. Then study this. Just like any adjective, Hebrew participles, can be attributive, predicate or substantival.

Attributive:

• will not be part of a noun sentence;

• will directly follow the noun it modifies;

• will match this noun in gender, number, and definiteness. video

Predicate:

• will be part of a noun sentence;

• will match this noun in gender and number but not definiteness;

• will be anarthrous. video

Substantival:

• will be performing one of the noun functions. video

Note also the passive participle which is easy to find by reason of the holem-vav between the second and third letters as here: in סָגוּר. See page 22j here.

A passive participle is a non-finite verbal form with passive or reflexive voice that can function as a verb (or verbal complement), an adjective, or a noun. passive participles most often function as either an attributive adjective or a predicative adjective.

Only the Qal stem has a distinct passive form for the participle; in all other cases, the passive (or sometimes reflexive) meaning is determined by the stem formation and the specific verb. source