וּבְהוֹצִיאָ֣ם (ū·ḇə·hō·w·ṣî·’ām) in 2 Chronicles 34:14: Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural
וּבְהוֹצִיאָ֣ם (ū·ḇə·hō·w·ṣî·’ām) in 2 Chronicles 34:14
Source Word
2 Chronicles 34:14 token 1 is וּבְהוֹצִיאָ֣ם, H3318, parsed Conj-w, Prep-b | V-Hifil-Inf | 3mp and aligned with While they were bringing out.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
The temporal construction places a momentous textual discovery within ordinary temple-repair administration without confusing the money and the Book.
How To Communicate It
Use a two-clause outline to identify who handled the funds, who found the Book, and how while relates the actions.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- The plural suffix supplies the subject of bringing out; the money is that action's object.
- Hilkiah and the Book belong to the separate main clause of finding.
- The temporal relation does not by itself prove accident, concealment, or a full doctrine of providence.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural
Hifil
Infinitive construct
Third
Masculine
Plural
Conj-w, prep-b
Third person masculine plural
The conjunction and bet-prefixed infinitive establish a simultaneous circumstance: while the temple workers were causing the money to be brought out. The plural suffix supplies they as subject, while Hilkiah becomes the subject of the main discovery clause.
The form sets the money-handling activity as the time during which Hilkiah finds the Book of the Law.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The prefixed infinitive opens a temporal clause about the money before the main clause names Hilkiah and the Book.
The temple-repair account in which funds are administered and the Book of the Law is found.
It marks the workers' bringing out of money as simultaneous background for Hilkiah's discovery.
It does not make Hilkiah the subject of bringing out, identify the Book as the money, prove that the workers found it, or explain divine providence from syntax alone.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The form separates the ongoing fund activity from the main discovery that redirects Josiah's reform.
Waw-linked bet infinitive opening a while clause. makes fund handling simultaneous with finding the Book. Attached to the money brought out during temple repair. Governed by Hilkiah's discovery in the main clause. The subordinate clause and main clause have different subjects and objects.
What was being brought out when Hilkiah found the Book? The workers were bringing out the temple money; Hilkiah separately found the Book of the Law.
Interpretive: The prefixed infinitive is rendered as a progressive while clause, and the plural suffix appears as they.
The suffix marks the infinitive's plural subject rather than its object. The Book is governed by found, not by bringing out. Simultaneous timing does not settle whether the discovery was expected or unexpected.
The Book was what they brought out: Keep money with the subordinate action and the Book with Hilkiah's finding. the suffix refers to Hilkiah: The suffix is plural, while Hilkiah is the singular subject introduced in the main clause. while proves a hidden providential mechanism: The construction coordinates time; theology of providence must come from broader textual witness.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
2 Chronicles 34:14 token 1 is וּבְהוֹצִיאָ֣ם, H3318, parsed Conj-w, Prep-b | V-Hifil-Inf | 3mp and aligned with While they were bringing out.
יָצָא can describe going out; in this Hifil occurrence the workers cause the temple money to be taken out for its administrative use.
The infinitive clause has a plural subject expressed by the suffix and money as its object. Hilkiah and the Book belong to the main found clause.
During work connected with temple-repair funds, Hilkiah finds the Book of the Law given through Moses, which then shapes Josiah's reform response.
The importance of the Book comes from the narrative's identification and subsequent reading and response, not from a hidden meaning in the infinitive.
Separate the routine work from the discovery while showing how the text places them at the same moment.
Do not claim that the grammar proves accidental discovery, intentional concealment, or a complete theology of providence.