וַֽיְלַמְּדֵ֖הוּ (way·lam·mə·ḏê·hū) in Isaiah 40:14: Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
וַֽיְלַמְּדֵ֖הוּ (way·lam·mə·ḏê·hū) in Isaiah 40:14
Source Word
Isaiah 40:14 row 5 anchors the first H3925 token to and who taught Him the paths of justice.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
And who taught him marks the Lord as the supposed recipient only to deny that any instructor supplied him with the paths of justice. And reflects the waw, him renders the suffix referring to the Lord, and who supplies the interrogative subject from the surrounding rhetoric.
How To Communicate It
Mark who as the hypothetical subject and the Lord as the suffix-marked object, then let the unanswered question express divine independence rather than reconstructing a lesson.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not convert grammatical participant roles inside a rhetorical question into a claim that the Lord learned justice from another.
- The same Hebrew verb occurs again in the verse, but this token governs the paths-of-justice clause.
- The form does not narrate an actual lesson, identify a hidden teacher, or imply that consecutive-imperfect morphology overrides the rhetorical question.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Piel
ConsecImperf
Third
Masculine
Singular
Not applicable
Waw conjunction
Third person masculine singular
The waw-linked Piel form stands inside the rhetorical question and who taught him, with a hypothetical masculine singular instructor as subject and the attached masculine singular suffix referring to the Lord. The interrogative frame denies that such a teacher exists.
This first H3925 occurrence focuses on teaching the Lord the paths of justice and exposes the impossibility of divine dependence on an adviser.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The question whether the Lord consulted anyone who could enlighten him
Isaiah's sequence of rhetorical questions declaring that no one instructed the Lord in justice, knowledge, or understanding
This first H3925 occurrence focuses on teaching the Lord the paths of justice and exposes the impossibility of divine dependence on an adviser.
The form does not narrate an actual lesson, identify a hidden teacher, or imply that consecutive-imperfect morphology overrides the rhetorical question.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The form sharpens Isaiah's claim that the Lord's justice and wisdom are not received from any counselor.
The waw-linked Piel form stands inside the rhetorical question and who taught him, with a hypothetical masculine singular instructor as subject and the attached masculine singular suffix referring to the Lord. The interrogative frame denies that such a teacher exists.. This first H3925 occurrence focuses on teaching the Lord the paths of justice and exposes the impossibility of divine dependence on an adviser.. Attached to the question whether the Lord consulted anyone who could enlighten him. Governed by Isaiah's sequence of rhetorical questions declaring that no one instructed the Lord in justice, knowledge, or understanding. The form does not narrate an actual lesson, identify a hidden teacher, or imply that consecutive-imperfect morphology overrides the rhetorical question.
Does and who taught him describe an actual teacher of the Lord? No. The rhetorical question denies that anyone taught the Lord the paths of justice.
Direct: And reflects the waw, him renders the suffix referring to the Lord, and who supplies the interrogative subject from the surrounding rhetoric.
The same Hebrew verb occurs again in the verse, but this token governs the paths-of-justice clause. The interrogative frame controls the discourse force even though the morphology is classified as a consecutive imperfect.
The first Isaiah 40:14 teaching token treated as a complete interpretation of the paths-of-justice question: Do not convert grammatical participant roles inside a rhetorical question into a claim that the Lord learned justice from another. the grammatical teacher and object roles read as evidence that the Lord actually received instruction: Keep "and who taught Him" connected to וַֽיְלַמְּדֵ֖הוּ, row 5, and the full Isaiah 40:14 clause.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
Isaiah 40:14 row 5 anchors the first H3925 token to and who taught Him the paths of justice.
This row 5 H3925 witness concerns the paths of justice, distinguishing it from the row 8 occurrence in the same verse that asks who imparted knowledge.
The waw-linked Piel form stands inside the rhetorical question and who taught him, with a hypothetical masculine singular instructor as subject and the attached masculine singular suffix referring to the Lord. The interrogative frame denies that such a teacher exists.
Isaiah 40:13-14 magnifies the Lord's incomparable wisdom by asking who could have measured, advised, enlightened, or taught him.
The question belongs to Isaiah's comfort proclamation and its contrast between the Creator and all nations; claims about divine wisdom should arise from that whole argument.
Mark who as the hypothetical subject and the Lord as the suffix-marked object, then let the unanswered question express divine independence rather than reconstructing a lesson.
Do not convert grammatical participant roles inside a rhetorical question into a claim that the Lord learned justice from another.