וִֽיהַלְל֖וּהָ (wî·hal·lū·hā) in Proverbs 31:31: Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person feminine singular
וִֽיהַלְל֖וּהָ (wî·hal·lū·hā) in Proverbs 31:31
Source Word
Proverbs 31:31 row 6 aligns the waw-linked H1984 Piel conjunctive imperfect and feminine singular suffix with let them praise her.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
Let them praise her lets the plural works carry the testimony and identifies the woman, not an abstract ideal, as the recipient of that public recognition. Let captures the connected imperfect's volitional force in this closing appeal, them represents the plural works as subject, and her renders the attached feminine singular suffix.
How To Communicate It
Match the plural verb to her works, resolve the suffix to the woman, and keep the appeal at the gates within the poem's full account of wisdom and fear of the Lord.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not confuse subject and object, or use public recognition as a mechanical test of whether a faithful life has value.
- The English pronoun them refers to the plural works functioning as subject, while her is the suffix-marked object.
- The morphology does not make works meritorious before God, promise public acclaim to every faithful person, or prove personification apart from the clause's wording.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person feminine singular
Piel
ConjImperf
Third
Masculine
Plural
Not applicable
Waw conjunction
Third person feminine singular
The waw-linked Piel conjunctive imperfect is masculine plural and carries a feminine singular suffix for the woman. In the verse's appeal, her works supply the plural subject and the form receives the volitional force rendered let them praise her.
The form personifies her works as plural speakers of praise and keeps the woman as their suffix-marked object in the public sphere of the gates.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The call to give the woman the fruit of her hands and to let her works speak for her at the gates
The poem's closing public recognition of what her hands have produced and her life has demonstrated
The form personifies her works as plural speakers of praise and keeps the woman as their suffix-marked object in the public sphere of the gates.
The morphology does not make works meritorious before God, promise public acclaim to every faithful person, or prove personification apart from the clause's wording.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The form turns the woman's accumulated works into public testimony and closes the poem by directing their praise back to her.
The waw-linked Piel conjunctive imperfect is masculine plural and carries a feminine singular suffix for the woman. In the verse's appeal, her works supply the plural subject and the form receives the volitional force rendered let them praise her.. The form personifies her works as plural speakers of praise and keeps the woman as their suffix-marked object in the public sphere of the gates.. Attached to the call to give the woman the fruit of her hands and to let her works speak for her at the gates. Governed by the poem's closing public recognition of what her hands have produced and her life has demonstrated. The morphology does not make works meritorious before God, promise public acclaim to every faithful person, or prove personification apart from the clause's wording.
What praises the woman at the gates in Proverbs 31:31? Her works are called to praise her, publicly bearing witness to the fruit of her hands.
Direct: Let captures the connected imperfect's volitional force in this closing appeal, them represents the plural works as subject, and her renders the attached feminine singular suffix.
The English pronoun them refers to the plural works functioning as subject, while her is the suffix-marked object. The conjunctive imperfect's let force comes from the closing exhortation; the stem alone does not encode a universal command to praise.
The plural ending treated as an object pronoun or the feminine suffix confused with the works that function as subject: Do not confuse subject and object, or use public recognition as a mechanical test of whether a faithful life has value. let them praise her turned into a guarantee of reputation or a claim that visible results are the only measure of faithfulness: Keep "praise her" connected to וִֽיהַלְל֖וּהָ, row 6, and the full Proverbs 31:31 clause.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
Proverbs 31:31 row 6 aligns the waw-linked H1984 Piel conjunctive imperfect and feminine singular suffix with let them praise her.
This row 6 H1984 witness gives the woman's works a plural public voice, distinct from her husband's singular praise in verse 28.
The waw-linked Piel conjunctive imperfect is masculine plural and carries a feminine singular suffix for the woman. In the verse's appeal, her works supply the plural subject and the form receives the volitional force rendered let them praise her.
Proverbs 31 closes by calling for the tangible fruit of the woman's labor to be acknowledged and for her works to testify publicly to her wise, God-fearing life.
The public praise at the gates completes the poem's movement from hidden labor to recognized fruit while leaving fear of the Lord as its stated center of commendation.
Match the plural verb to her works, resolve the suffix to the woman, and keep the appeal at the gates within the poem's full account of wisdom and fear of the Lord.
Do not confuse subject and object, or use public recognition as a mechanical test of whether a faithful life has value.