הוֹלֵ֥ךְ (hō·w·lêḵ) in Jonah 1:13: Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
הוֹלֵ֥ךְ (hō·w·lêḵ) in Jonah 1:13
Source Word
At Jonah 1:13, the source token הוֹלֵ֥ךְ is H1980, V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms. The BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
More and more expresses the progressive idiom without repeating an unnatural English verb of going. The sailors' determined attempt to spare Jonah fails because the sea continues raging against them, leaving them no easy escape from the crisis.
How To Communicate It
Tie more and more to the sea's ongoing intensification and contrast that movement with the sailors' unsuccessful struggle toward land.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not turn the participle into a promise that crises always worsen or use the sea's resistance to condemn compassionate effort.
- The participle itself means going, while its force depends on the neighboring storm verb and the failed rowing clause.
- Read more and more within Jonah 1:13 as this H1980 occurrence; broader theology requires the passage.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Qal
Prtcpl
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Participial form holds the sea's escalation open while the men repeatedly strain at the oars.
The masculine singular participle agrees with sea and combines with the storming expression to mark continued increase.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The sea as it keeps intensifying against the sailors
The explanation for why their hard rowing cannot reach land
The Qal participle sustains the going-and-storming idiom, here supporting the translation more and more as resistance escalates.
The form does not describe the sailors traveling or guarantee that greater human effort can master the storm.
How Much The Form Matters Here
Moderate: The sailors' determined attempt to spare Jonah fails because the sea continues raging against them, leaving them no easy escape from the crisis.
The masculine singular participle agrees with sea and combines with the storming expression to mark continued increase.. The Qal participle sustains the going-and-storming idiom, here supporting the translation more and more as resistance escalates.. Attached to the sea as it keeps intensifying against the sailors. Governed by the explanation for why their hard rowing cannot reach land. The form does not describe the sailors traveling or guarantee that greater human effort can master the storm.
What does more and more explain about the sailors' failed rowing? It keeps the sea's increasing violence in view as the men discover that their strongest effort cannot reach shore.
Direct: More and more expresses the progressive idiom without repeating an unnatural English verb of going.
The participle itself means going, while its force depends on the neighboring storm verb and the failed rowing clause. Against them describes the experienced resistance of the sea, not independent moral hostility.
Participle predicts endless worsening: The form depicts progression at this moment; the sea becomes calm after Jonah is cast overboard. failed effort makes compassion wrong: The narrative records their humane reluctance even though providence prevents their chosen solution.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
At Jonah 1:13, the source token הוֹלֵ֥ךְ is H1980, V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms. The BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
הָלַךְ is the lemma behind more and more here. Within Jonah 1:13, H1980 retains this exact lexical identity.
The masculine singular participle agrees with sea and combines with the storming expression to mark continued increase.
The sailors' determined attempt to spare Jonah fails because the sea continues raging against them, leaving them no easy escape from the crisis.
Human compassion is visible in their effort, yet the Lord's pursuit cannot be overcome by rowing harder.
Tie more and more to the sea's ongoing intensification and contrast that movement with the sailors' unsuccessful struggle toward land.
Do not turn the participle into a promise that crises always worsen or use the sea's resistance to condemn compassionate effort.