כְּדַבֶּרְכֶֽם׃ (kə·ḏab·ber·ḵem) in Exodus 12:31: Preposition-k | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | second person masculine plural
כְּדַבֶּרְכֶֽם׃ (kə·ḏab·ber·ḵem) in Exodus 12:31
Source Word
Exodus 12:31 row 19 aligns the kaph-prefixed H1696 infinitive and plural suffix with as you have requested at the end of Pharaoh's command.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
As you have requested measures Pharaoh's command by the people's earlier words and highlights how completely his resistance has collapsed. As reflects the kaph comparison, you identifies the plural suffix, and requested paraphrases their prior speaking about departure and worship.
How To Communicate It
Connect the comparative prefix to Pharaoh's command, trace the plural suffix to the prior speakers, and read the concession against the nighttime grief and urgency.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not detach the phrase from Pharaoh's compelled surrender or turn a contextual translation of speaking into a universal request-and-receive formula.
- The infinitive phrase looks backward to prior speech rather than introducing a new act of speaking.
- The form does not portray Pharaoh as a willing worshiper, make requested the fixed meaning of H1696, or erase the coercive judgment surrounding his concession.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Preposition-k | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | second person masculine plural
Piel
Inf
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Not applicable
Not applicable
Not applicable
Kaph preposition
Second person masculine plural
The kaph-prefixed Piel infinitive construct forms a standard phrase meaning according to or as the addressees had spoken, and the second-person masculine plural suffix identifies the prior speech as theirs. In the BSB, requested communicates the force of those earlier words in natural English.
The comparative infinitive phrase qualifies worship the Lord by referring back to what the plural addressees had repeatedly demanded.
What The Form Does In This Verse
Pharaoh's command that Moses, Aaron, and the Israelites go and worship the Lord
The midnight summons after the death of Egypt's firstborn, when Pharaoh finally orders the departure he had resisted
The comparative infinitive phrase qualifies worship the Lord by referring back to what the plural addressees had repeatedly demanded.
The form does not portray Pharaoh as a willing worshiper, make requested the fixed meaning of H1696, or erase the coercive judgment surrounding his concession.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The compact form recalls the words Pharaoh resisted and shows his order finally conforming to the exodus demand.
The kaph-prefixed Piel infinitive construct forms a standard phrase meaning according to or as the addressees had spoken, and the second-person masculine plural suffix identifies the prior speech as theirs. In the BSB, requested communicates the force of those earlier words in natural English.. The comparative infinitive phrase qualifies worship the Lord by referring back to what the plural addressees had repeatedly demanded.. Attached to Pharaoh's command that Moses, Aaron, and the Israelites go and worship the Lord. Governed by the midnight summons after the death of Egypt's firstborn, when Pharaoh finally orders the departure he had resisted. The form does not portray Pharaoh as a willing worshiper, make requested the fixed meaning of H1696, or erase the coercive judgment surrounding his concession.
What earlier speech does as you have requested recall in Exodus 12:31? It recalls the repeated demand that Israel be released to worship the Lord, which Pharaoh now grants after the final plague.
Direct: As reflects the kaph comparison, you identifies the plural suffix, and requested paraphrases their prior speaking about departure and worship.
The infinitive phrase looks backward to prior speech rather than introducing a new act of speaking. Requested is an English contextual rendering; the Hebrew form itself centers speaking according to the addressees' words.
The second-person plural suffix treated as a direct object instead of marking the addressees' prior speaking: Do not detach the phrase from Pharaoh's compelled surrender or turn a contextual translation of speaking into a universal request-and-receive formula. as you have requested turned into a promise that spoken requests necessarily secure the desired outcome: Keep "as you have requested" connected to כְּדַבֶּרְכֶֽם׃, row 19, and the full Exodus 12:31 clause.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
Exodus 12:31 row 19 aligns the kaph-prefixed H1696 infinitive and plural suffix with as you have requested at the end of Pharaoh's command.
This row 19 H1696 witness points back to the plural demand for departure and worship, distinct from David's overheard conversation and Samuel's report before the Lord.
The kaph-prefixed Piel infinitive construct forms a standard phrase meaning according to or as the addressees had spoken, and the second-person masculine plural suffix identifies the prior speech as theirs. In the BSB, requested communicates the force of those earlier words in natural English.
Exodus 12:31 records Pharaoh's urgent nighttime surrender after the final plague: Israel must leave and worship the Lord in keeping with the demand he had long refused.
The phrase belongs to the exodus confrontation and Pharaoh's compelled release of Israel; it is not a general formula that every spoken request will be granted.
Connect the comparative prefix to Pharaoh's command, trace the plural suffix to the prior speakers, and read the concession against the nighttime grief and urgency.
Do not detach the phrase from Pharaoh's compelled surrender or turn a contextual translation of speaking into a universal request-and-receive formula.