הֹלִֽיכֲךָ֜ (hō·lî·ḵă·ḵā) in Deuteronomy 8:2: Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
הֹלִֽיכֲךָ֜ (hō·lî·ḵă·ḵā) in Deuteronomy 8:2
Source Word
The Textus Receptus witness for Deuteronomy 8:2 reads הֹלִֽיכֲךָ֜ with the morphology label Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
The form clarifies the action or state being asserted in the rendering "led you".
How To Communicate It
When teaching Deuteronomy 8:2, use this Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular to explain the exact form's local function first, then move carefully to interpretation from the whole clause.
What Not To Say
- Grammar should serve context, not override it.
- Do not treat this occurrence as a complete word study for H1980.
- Do not make a morphology label carry a doctrine or application apart from the verse.
- Do not turn grammatical gender into a biological or theological claim by itself.
- Do not make the Hebrew stem settle the whole meaning apart from context.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Hifil
Perfect
Third
Masculine
Singular
Second person masculine singular
Perfect names the Hebrew verbal presentation, but the verse decides whether sequence, command, purpose, or description is most prominent.
This form carries the BSB rendering "led you" within Deuteronomy 8:2.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The BSB rendering "led you" in Deuteronomy 8:2
The clause of Deuteronomy 8:2, with the BSB+ row identifying the exact Hebrew form
הֹלִֽיכֲךָ֜, rendered "led you," is a Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular. It supplies the verbal action or state that the clause asserts.
The form does not by itself settle the whole interpretation of the verse, the full lexical range of the word, or a doctrine apart from the immediate wording and context.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The form matters because it functions as predicate in Deuteronomy 8:2.
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular. states the action or condition in the clause. Attached to the local phrase in Deuteronomy 8:2. Governed by the immediate wording of Deuteronomy 8:2. The syntax should be explained from the clause, not isolated from the passage.
What action or state is being asserted? הֹלִֽיכֲךָ֜ should be read as predicate in Deuteronomy 8:2, with the surrounding words deciding the exact interpretive force.
Supporting: The form directly supports the local rendering "led you", while the surrounding words decide how much interpretive weight to place on it.
The same morphology label can function differently in another verse. The immediate wording should decide the contextual force. Grammatical gender is not a separate theological claim.
Grammar alone proves doctrine: The form supports interpretation only as it serves the verse and its context. grammatical gender proves theology: Grammatical gender is a language feature and should not be pressed beyond the verse. Hebrew stem settles meaning: The stem is important, but the word, clause, and passage govern the final interpretation.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
The Textus Receptus witness for Deuteronomy 8:2 reads הֹלִֽיכֲךָ֜ with the morphology label Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular.
The lemma is הָלַךְ. The guide uses the gloss or rendering "led you" only to orient this occurrence.
הֹלִֽיכֲךָ֜, rendered "led you," is a Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular. It supplies the verbal action or state that the clause asserts.
In Deuteronomy 8:2, the form belongs to the statement where the surrounding words determine what the reader should learn from it.
The form should be read within the passage's local argument and the wider canonical witness, not as an isolated proof.
When teaching Deuteronomy 8:2, use this Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular to explain the exact form's local function first, then move carefully to interpretation from the whole clause.
Do not derive a full word study, doctrine, or interpretive conclusion from this morphology label alone. The form serves the immediate wording and context.