לְהוֹצִיאָ֖ם (lə·hō·w·ṣî·’ām) in Exodus 12:42: Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural
לְהוֹצִיאָ֖ם (lə·hō·w·ṣî·’ām) in Exodus 12:42
Source Word
Exodus 12:42 token 5 is לְהוֹצִיאָ֖ם, H3318, parsed Prep-l | V-Hifil-Inf | 3mp and aligned with to bring them.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
The infinitive makes the vigil a memory of action: the Lord brought an enslaved people out, and Israel's generations are to remember that night.
How To Communicate It
Use the suffix and causative stem to center the people liberated and the Lord who acts, then preserve both historical gravity and present humility.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- The Lord is the agent of the Hifil action, and the plural suffix refers to the Israelites brought out.
- The exodus must not be retold in ways that trivialize enslavement, erase Jewish memory, or romanticize oppression.
- Respect the verse's address to Israel's generations; Christian learning from the exodus does not erase the particular people and observance named here.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural
Hifil
Infinitive construct
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Prep-l
Third person masculine plural
The l-prefixed Hifil infinitive states the purpose associated with the Lord's vigil: to cause the Israelites to go out from Egypt. Its plural suffix marks the people brought out, while the Lord remains the actor supplied by the opening clause.
The form anchors the commemorative night in the Lord's concrete act of bringing Israel out of the land of enslavement.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The purpose infinitive follows the statement that the Lord kept vigil on that night.
The transition from the exodus departure to a night of observance for Israel's generations.
It identifies bringing the Israelites out of Egypt as the deliverance remembered by the vigil.
It does not make Israel self-liberating, erase the violence of enslavement, prescribe every later ritual detail, or grant outsiders ownership of Jewish observance.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The purpose infinitive and suffix bind the vigil night to the Lord's liberation of Israel from enslavement.
L-prefixed Hifil infinitive naming Israel's departure. states bringing the Israelites out as the purpose and event remembered. Attached to the Lord's vigil that night. Governed by the exodus commemoration statement. The agent is supplied by the clause, while the suffix marks those delivered.
Who is them, and why does the form begin with to? Them refers to the Israelites, and the l-prefixed infinitive connects their being brought out with the Lord's vigil on that night.
Direct: To marks the infinitive relation, bring out expresses Hifil causation, and them represents the plural suffix.
The suffix marks the people brought out, not the Egyptians or later observers. The infinitive explains the deliverance event without specifying the whole shape of commemoration. The verse's enduring significance does not dissolve Israel's historical and liturgical particularity.
Israel brought itself out: The Lord is the clause's agent, and Hifil presents the people's departure as his deliverance action. the exodus is only a spiritual metaphor: Keep the historical memory of enslaved people leaving Egypt in view. any reader owns Israel's observance: Learn from the passage without erasing the command's address to Israel's generations.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
Exodus 12:42 token 5 is לְהוֹצִיאָ֖ם, H3318, parsed Prep-l | V-Hifil-Inf | 3mp and aligned with to bring them.
יָצָא describes going or coming out; its Hifil here presents the Lord causing the enslaved people to leave Egypt.
The Lord supplies the agent, the prefixed infinitive relates liberation to the vigil night, the suffix retrieves Israel, and Egypt is the place from which they come out.
The night of Israel's departure is remembered because the Lord watched over the people and brought them from bondage.
The exodus becomes a foundational biblical pattern of divine rescue, but its particular history and Israel's commanded remembrance must not be erased by generic appropriation.
Keep enslaved people, divine action, and intergenerational memory together while speaking respectfully about Jewish observance and the enduring harm of slavery.
Do not treat oppression as merely metaphorical, appropriate Israel's ritual obligations without distinction, or use deliverance language to excuse new domination.