בַּעֲל֥וֹת (ba·‘ă·lō·wṯ) in Jonah 4:7: Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
בַּעֲל֥וֹת (ba·‘ă·lō·wṯ) in Jonah 4:7
Source Word
At Jonah 4:7, the source token בַּעֲל֥וֹת is H5927, Prep-b | V-Qal-Inf. The BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
When dawn came idiomatically expresses beth plus the infinitive and its dawn subject. At the next dawn, God appoints a worm to strike the plant, turning Jonah's brief comfort into the next stage of instruction.
How To Communicate It
Explain the rising-root idiom for dawn and let the temporal clause mark the precise reversal from comfort to loss.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not confuse this H5927 infinitive with the plant's earlier growth or infer that dawn itself causes the withering.
- The root's upward sense fits sunrise, while English commonly speaks of dawn coming.
- Read came within Jonah 4:7 as this H5927 occurrence; broader theology requires the passage.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Qal
Inf
Not applicable
Not applicable
Not applicable
Not applicable
Preposition b
None
The infinitive does not carry tense by itself; the narrative sequence locates dawn after the night of shade.
Beth converts the infinitive into a time-setting clause, with dawn supplying the event whose arrival marks the moment.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The coming up of dawn as the time God appoints the worm
The temporal clause introducing the plant's destruction the next day
The beth-prefixed Qal infinitive forms a temporal expression: when dawn rose or came.
The verb does not describe the plant growing again or make dawn an independent divine agent.
How Much The Form Matters Here
Moderate: At the next dawn, God appoints a worm to strike the plant, turning Jonah's brief comfort into the next stage of instruction.
Beth converts the infinitive into a time-setting clause, with dawn supplying the event whose arrival marks the moment.. The beth-prefixed Qal infinitive forms a temporal expression: when dawn rose or came.. Attached to the coming up of dawn as the time God appoints the worm. Governed by the temporal clause introducing the plant's destruction the next day. The verb does not describe the plant growing again or make dawn an independent divine agent.
Why is a verb meaning rise rendered came with dawn? The beth-infinitive construction uses dawn's rising as the time marker: when the next morning arrived.
Direct: When dawn came idiomatically expresses beth plus the infinitive and its dawn subject.
The root's upward sense fits sunrise, while English commonly speaks of dawn coming. God appoints the worm in the main clause; the temporal infinitive only tells when.
Same root means the plant is subject: This token belongs to the dawn clause, not the prior verse's plant-growth clause. time marker carries causal force: When locates the appointment; it does not make dawn the cause of the plant's death.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
At Jonah 4:7, the source token בַּעֲל֥וֹת is H5927, Prep-b | V-Qal-Inf. The BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
עָלָה is the lemma behind came here. Within Jonah 4:7, H5927 retains this exact lexical identity.
Beth converts the infinitive into a time-setting clause, with dawn supplying the event whose arrival marks the moment.
At the next dawn, God appoints a worm to strike the plant, turning Jonah's brief comfort into the next stage of instruction.
The same sovereign Lord appoints relief and removal, using changing circumstances to expose the prophet's heart.
Explain the rising-root idiom for dawn and let the temporal clause mark the precise reversal from comfort to loss.
Do not confuse this H5927 infinitive with the plant's earlier growth or infer that dawn itself causes the withering.