בְּהוֹצִיא֥וֹ (bə·hō·w·ṣî·’ōw) in 1 Kings 8:21: Preposition-b | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular
בְּהוֹצִיא֥וֹ (bə·hō·w·ṣî·’ōw) in 1 Kings 8:21
Source Word
1 Kings 8:21 token 13 is בְּהוֹצִיא֥וֹ, H3318, parsed Prep-b | V-Hifil-Inf | 3ms and aligned with when He brought them out.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
The temporal infinitive makes the temple's covenant memory look back to the Lord's concrete act of bringing Israel's fathers out of Egypt.
How To Communicate It
Use the form to distinguish divine subject from human object, then connect the ark's covenant witness to the remembered exodus.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- The third-person suffix marks the Lord as subject; the following direct-object expression supplies them.
- Hifil clarifies the bringing-out action but does not by itself define the covenant.
- Read the ark, covenant, fathers, and Egypt language together before drawing theological conclusions.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Preposition-b | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular
Hifil
Infinitive construct
Third
Masculine
Singular
Prep-b
Third person masculine singular
The prefixed infinitive locates the covenant-making action in the time when the Lord caused Israel to go out. Its suffix identifies the Lord as the subject, while the following separate word supplies the object translated them.
The form recalls the exodus as the historical setting for the covenant whose tablets are kept in the ark.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The infinitive follows the covenant made with our fathers and gives the time of that covenant action.
Solomon's account of the ark, the covenant, and the Lord's exodus action in 1 Kings 8:21.
It identifies the Lord as the one who brought the fathers out and makes the exodus the historical setting of the covenant remembrance.
It does not make the suffix mean them, collapse the covenant into a grammar label, or claim that the temple replaces the exodus story.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The form ties covenant remembrance to the exodus while distinguishing the divine subject from the people brought out.
Bet-prefixed Hifil infinitive with third-person subject suffix. locates covenant-making when the Lord brought the fathers out of Egypt. Attached to the covenant the Lord made with the fathers. Governed by Solomon's description of the ark and covenant. The following object, not the suffix, supplies them.
Where do He and them come from in the English rendering? The suffix identifies the Lord as He, while the following direct-object expression identifies the fathers as them.
Interpretive: English combines the temporal prefix, causative infinitive, subject suffix, and following object in when He brought them out.
A suffix on an infinitive can require clause-level analysis rather than a simple object rule. The Hifil names caused movement here, but the exodus context supplies its redemptive significance. Grammatical masculine does not define divine ontology.
The suffix means both He and them: Keep the subject suffix distinct from the following direct object. Hifil alone proves a theology of deliverance: Let the covenant, fathers, Egypt, and wider exodus narrative explain the action. grammatical gender defines God's nature: Treat masculine agreement as grammar within the sentence, not an ontological proof.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
1 Kings 8:21 token 13 is בְּהוֹצִיא֥וֹ, H3318, parsed Prep-b | V-Hifil-Inf | 3ms and aligned with when He brought them out.
יָצָא can describe going or coming out; the Hifil here presents the Lord bringing the fathers out of Egypt.
The prefixed infinitive modifies covenant-making temporally. Its suffix supplies the divine subject, and the following direct-object expression supplies them.
Solomon says the ark contains the covenant associated with the Lord's deliverance of Israel's fathers from Egypt.
The temple prayer remembers the exodus and covenant together; wider covenant theology should be developed from the whole narrative and canon.
Trace He to the suffix and them to the following object so the historical participants remain clear.
Do not use the suffix as both subject and object or treat causative morphology as a complete account of redemption.