לְהַבִּ֔יט (lə·hab·bîṭ) in Jonah 2:4: Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct

Hebrew-verb

Verb

Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct

Hifil

Inf

Not applicable

Not specified

Not specified

Not applicable

Lamed preposition

None

An infinitive does not independently mark tense or person; the surrounding first-person resolve supplies I and the forward-looking sense.

Lamed marks the infinitive construct as a verbal complement, while Hifil gives the looking action its directed or attentive force.

The governing resolve to do so once more toward the Lord's holy temple

Jonah's prayerful contrast between feeling banished from God's sight and yet directing hope toward His temple

The lamed-prefixed Hifil infinitive completes the preceding resolve and directs the act of looking toward the holy temple.

The infinitive itself has no first-person ending, and its form does not guarantee deliverance or describe physical eyesight apart from the governing clause.

Moderate: Even while describing exclusion from God's sight, Jonah turns his attention again toward the place associated with God's presence and heard prayer.

Lamed marks the infinitive construct as a verbal complement, while Hifil gives the looking action its directed or attentive force.. The lamed-prefixed Hifil infinitive completes the preceding resolve and directs the act of looking toward the holy temple.. Attached to the governing resolve to do so once more toward the Lord's holy temple. Governed by Jonah's prayerful contrast between feeling banished from God's sight and yet directing hope toward His temple. The infinitive itself has no first-person ending, and its form does not guarantee deliverance or describe physical eyesight apart from the governing clause.

Where does the first-person sense of I will look come from? The infinitive names the looking action, while the governing first-person expression supplies Jonah as speaker and frames his renewed resolve.

Direct: I will look states the English subject and tense supplied by the governing clause, while toward the temple preserves the directed action.

The form can describe seeing or looking attentively; the directional phrase toward Your holy temple favors intentional orientation. The textual prayer expresses hope, but the infinitive alone neither promises rescue nor specifies Jonah's physical location.

Infinitive contains first person: Hebrew gets the first-person subject from the governing expression, not from person inflection on this infinitive. temple direction guarantees deliverance: Jonah appeals to God in hope; the spatial orientation is not a mechanism that obligates divine action. morphology replaces literary context: The H5027 form clarifies the I will look relation in Jonah 2:4; the surrounding passage establishes its scope.

At Jonah 2:4, the Jonah 2:4 source token לְהַבִּ֔יט is H5027, Prep-l | V-Hifil-Inf. The H5027 Jonah 2:4 BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.

נָבַט is the lemma behind I will look here. Within Jonah 2:4, H5027 retains this exact lexical identity.

Lamed marks the infinitive construct as a verbal complement, while Hifil gives the looking action its directed or attentive force.

Even while describing exclusion from God's sight, Jonah turns his attention again toward the place associated with God's presence and heard prayer.

The prayer joins distress, remembered worship, and renewed appeal without presenting the temple direction as a technique that controls God.

Separate what comes from the infinitive from what comes from its governor: the form names directed looking, while the nearby verb supplies the speaker and resolve.

Do not find first-person grammar inside the infinitive, and do not turn looking toward the temple into a mechanical guarantee of rescue.