וַֽיְעַנְּךָ֮ (way·‘an·nə·ḵā) in Deuteronomy 8:3: Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
וַֽיְעַנְּךָ֮ (way·‘an·nə·ḵā) in Deuteronomy 8:3
Source Word
The Deuteronomy 8:3 BSB+ word-table row 1 anchors וַֽיְעַנְּךָ֮ as H6031, Conj-w | V-Piel-ConsecImperf-3ms | 2ms, for the rendering "He humbled you."
How The Form Affects Interpretation
He humbled you is a finite narrative action, distinguishing this remembered event from the purpose infinitives in nearby verses and tying it to the manna lesson that follows. He humbled you expresses the third-person action and the attached second-person object, while the waw-linked form carries the memory forward.
How To Communicate It
Follow the waw-driven sequence from humbling to hunger to manna to understanding, and refuse to stop the verse at deprivation.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not read the Piel consecutive imperfect as approval of imposed hunger or detach the action from manna and the verse's lesson about the Lord's word.
- The consecutive form advances remembered narrative rather than functioning as a bare prediction.
- The narrative form does not make hunger good in itself or authorize people to impose deprivation as a spiritual lesson.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Piel
ConsecImperf
Third
Masculine
Singular
Not applicable
Waw conjunction
Second person masculine singular
The waw-linked Piel consecutive imperfect advances the remembered narrative with the Lord as third-person subject and Israel as the attached second-person object: he humbled them, allowed hunger, and then fed them.
The finite consecutive form moves from Moses' call to remember into a completed wilderness action directed toward Israel.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The opening action in the remembered sequence of humbling, hunger, manna, and instruction
The explanation that Israel learned life depends on every word from the Lord, not on bread alone
The finite consecutive form moves from Moses' call to remember into a completed wilderness action directed toward Israel.
The narrative form does not make hunger good in itself or authorize people to impose deprivation as a spiritual lesson.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The finite form begins a narrative chain in which humbling and hunger lead to manna and a lesson about dependence on the Lord.
The waw-linked Piel consecutive imperfect advances the remembered narrative with the Lord as third-person subject and Israel as the attached second-person object: he humbled them, allowed hunger, and then fed them.. The finite consecutive form moves from Moses' call to remember into a completed wilderness action directed toward Israel.. Attached to the opening action in the remembered sequence of humbling, hunger, manna, and instruction. Governed by the explanation that Israel learned life depends on every word from the Lord, not on bread alone. The narrative form does not make hunger good in itself or authorize people to impose deprivation as a spiritual lesson.
What sequence does He humbled you begin in Deuteronomy 8:3? It begins the movement from humbling and hunger to manna and the lesson that life depends on the Lord's word.
Direct: He humbled you expresses the third-person action and the attached second-person object, while the waw-linked form carries the memory forward.
The consecutive form advances remembered narrative rather than functioning as a bare prediction. The verse joins humbling with divine feeding and instruction, so the form cannot support glorifying deprivation by itself.
Conj-w | V-Piel-ConsecImperf-3ms | 2ms at Deuteronomy 8:3 treated as the whole interpretation: Do not read the Piel consecutive imperfect as approval of imposed hunger or detach the action from manna and the verse's lesson about the Lord's word. the English rendering "He humbled you" detached from its Hebrew form: Keep "He humbled you" connected to וַֽיְעַנְּךָ֮, row 1, and the full Deuteronomy 8:3 clause.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
The Deuteronomy 8:3 BSB+ word-table row 1 anchors וַֽיְעַנְּךָ֮ as H6031, Conj-w | V-Piel-ConsecImperf-3ms | 2ms, for the rendering "He humbled you."
For h6031-deuteronomy-8-3-conj-w-v-piel-consecimperf-3ms-2ms, עָנָה is the lemma behind "He humbled you" at row 1; this exact token keeps H6031 tied to Deuteronomy 8:3.
The waw-linked Piel consecutive imperfect advances the remembered narrative with the Lord as third-person subject and Israel as the attached second-person object: he humbled them, allowed hunger, and then fed them.
Deuteronomy 8:3 links Israel's humbling and hunger with unexpected manna so the people would learn that life rests on the Lord's sustaining word, not bread alone.
The occurrence supports Deuteronomy's critique of self-sufficiency and later biblical reflection on dependence, while remaining anchored to Israel's manna history.
Follow the waw-driven sequence from humbling to hunger to manna to understanding, and refuse to stop the verse at deprivation.
Do not read the Piel consecutive imperfect as approval of imposed hunger or detach the action from manna and the verse's lesson about the Lord's word.