The nominal clause in Biblical Hebrew has recently received some attention (e.g.: Michel, Diethelm, Grundlegung einer hebräischen Syntax. Teil 2: Der hebräische Nominalsatz. Hg. Von: Achim Behrens, Johannes F. Diehl, Anja A. Diesel, Reinhard G. Lehmann, Andreas Wagner, Neukirchen – Vluyn 2004; Muraoka, Takamitsu, Reflexions on an Important Study on the Nominal Clause in Biblical Hebrew. In: Bibliotheca Orientalis LXIII, 5-6 (2006), 447-467). Yet, a single basic meaning underlying all nominal clauses hasn"t been given, nor does a systematic description covering the different types of nominal clauses exist. The paper starts by giving a first differentiation of nominal clauses according to the possible types of the predicate. A look at the possible nominal phrases leads to three different types of nominal predicate and thus to a tripartite division of all nominal clauses. It can than be shown, that there exists one basic logical predication for all types of nominal clause. This basic predication is differentiated in a systematic way by the nature of the predicate. Other features often used in this context, like determination or word order, serve for further differentiations. They either only occur in some of the basic types of nominal clause or can be explained by the normal use of the same feature in verbal clauses. The shortpaper is the English version of an article, written in German and accepted for publication in ZAH.