בְּהוֹצִֽיאֲךָ֤ (bə·hō·w·ṣî·’ă·ḵā) in Exodus 3:12: Preposition-b | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | second person masculine singular
בְּהוֹצִֽיאֲךָ֤ (bə·hō·w·ṣî·’ă·ḵā) in Exodus 3:12
Source Word
Exodus 3:12 token 12 is בְּהוֹצִֽיאֲךָ֤, H3318, parsed Prep-b | V-Hifil-Inf | 2ms and aligned with out inside When you have brought the people out.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
The form compresses time, agency, and outcome: when Moses brings the people out, their worship at the mountain will confirm God's prior promise and sending.
How To Communicate It
Use the embedded subject to affirm responsible human participation while insisting that authority remains dependent on God's presence and directed toward liberation and worship.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- The second-person suffix supplies Moses as the infinitive's subject; it does not mark him as the object brought out.
- Moses acts because God sends and promises to be with him, so the form does not support self-exalting or unaccountable leadership.
- Worship in the verse follows liberation and divine presence; it must not be used to validate coercion, manipulation, or leader-centered loyalty.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Preposition-b | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | second person masculine singular
Hifil
Infinitive construct
Not marked
Not marked
Not marked
Prep-b
Second person masculine singular subject
The b-prefixed infinitive creates a temporal setting, when you bring out, and its second-person suffix supplies Moses as the infinitive's subject. The people are the object supplied by the surrounding clause, so the suffix must not be read as the person brought out.
The form locates the promised sign after Moses leads the people from Egypt, when the gathered people will worship God at the mountain.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The temporal infinitive follows God's promise I will be with you and introduces the future worship that will confirm the sending.
God's answer to Moses' question about going to Pharaoh and bringing Israel out.
It describes Moses' future leadership in bringing the people from Egypt as the temporal setting for worship at Sinai.
It does not make Moses self-sufficient, identify him as the object brought out, validate unaccountable leadership, or make coerced worship the proof of divine presence.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The suffix functions as an embedded subject rather than object in a central call, presence, liberation, and worship statement.
B-prefixed Hifil infinitive with second-person subject. sets the time when Moses has brought Israel from Egypt. Attached to the future sign of worship at the mountain. Governed by God's promise I will be with you. The people are the object in context, while the suffix supplies Moses as agent of the infinitive.
Does the suffix mean that Moses is brought out? No. On this infinitive the suffix supplies the embedded subject: when you bring the people out.
Interpretive: When represents the b-prefix, you represents the subject suffix, and brought out expresses the Hifil infinitive with its contextual object.
Suffixes on infinitives can mark their subjects, so an object-only assumption would reverse the roles. The BSB+ aligned word out is only one segment of the full English clause. Moses' grammatical agency remains dependent on God's explicit presence and sending.
The suffix marks Moses as object: Read it as the embedded subject of the b-infinitive and take the people as the contextual object. the leader brings deliverance alone: Begin with God's promise of presence and sending, which governs Moses' role. worship proves a leader's authority: The sign belongs to God's promised liberation and presence, not to manipulated compliance.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
Exodus 3:12 token 12 is בְּהוֹצִֽיאֲךָ֤, H3318, parsed Prep-b | V-Hifil-Inf | 2ms and aligned with out inside When you have brought the people out.
יָצָא describes going out; the Hifil expresses bringing others out, here the people from Egypt.
The b-prefix establishes time, the suffix identifies Moses as the embedded subject, the people are the object, and all of you will worship supplies the result at the mountain.
God answers Moses' inadequacy with the promise of divine presence and a sign that will be recognized when the liberated people worship at Sinai.
Moses' agency remains commissioned, accompanied, and corrected by God; biblical leadership is not autonomous power or immunity from accountability.
Explain the unusual subject suffix, then place human leadership beneath God's presence and the liberation of a people rather than above them.
Do not make leaders indispensable saviors, demand loyalty on the basis of claimed calling, or treat worship produced by coercion as confirmation of God's presence.