Parallelism in Hebrew Poetry Chapter 4 Lexical-Syntactical Analysis pg 111-112

• Hebrew poetry can be characterized by paralellism,

• Hebrew parallelism is of three types;

• 1) Synonymous Parallelism, repeating content in different words;
• 2) Antithetic Parallelism, wherein the second line sharply contrasts the first; and
• 3) Synthetic Parallelism, wherein the second line carries further or completes the idea of the first..