אֲצַוֶּֽנּוּ׃ (’ă·ṣaw·wen·nū) in Deuteronomy 18:18: Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular | third person masculine singular
אֲצַוֶּֽנּוּ׃ (’ă·ṣaw·wen·nū) in Deuteronomy 18:18
Source Word
Deuteronomy 18:18 row 15 aligns H6680 with I command him after the Lord promises to put his words in the prophet's mouth.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
Everything I command him makes the promised speaker accountable to words received from the Lord rather than to private authority. I voices the Lord's first-person agency, command expresses authoritative instruction, and him renders the suffix whose antecedent is the singular prophet.
How To Communicate It
Trace I to the Lord and him to the prophet, then connect command with words placed in his mouth and with the testing instructions that follow.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not use the suffix as a shortcut around the passage's literary setting, prophetic tests, or later canonical interpretation.
- The imperfect belongs to the Lord's future promise in this discourse.
- The form does not authorize a prophet to invent content, identify every claimant as genuine, or settle the full identity and fulfillment of the promised prophet by morphology alone.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular | third person masculine singular
Piel
Imperf
First
Common
Singular
Not applicable
Third person masculine singular
The Piel imperfect carries the Lord's first-person common singular subject and a third-person masculine singular suffix for the promised prophet. The following speech clause identifies the content as everything the Lord commands him.
The form binds the prophet's message to the Lord as commander and the singular prophet as recipient of that instruction.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The Lord's promise to place his words in the mouth of a prophet raised from among Israel's brothers
The contrast between forbidden divination and the authorized prophetic word Israel must hear
The form binds the prophet's message to the Lord as commander and the singular prophet as recipient of that instruction.
The form does not authorize a prophet to invent content, identify every claimant as genuine, or settle the full identity and fulfillment of the promised prophet by morphology alone.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The form places prophetic authority under the Lord's command at the precise point where the prophet's message is defined.
The Piel imperfect carries the Lord's first-person common singular subject and a third-person masculine singular suffix for the promised prophet. The following speech clause identifies the content as everything the Lord commands him.. The form binds the prophet's message to the Lord as commander and the singular prophet as recipient of that instruction.. Attached to the Lord's promise to place his words in the mouth of a prophet raised from among Israel's brothers. Governed by the contrast between forbidden divination and the authorized prophetic word Israel must hear. The form does not authorize a prophet to invent content, identify every claimant as genuine, or settle the full identity and fulfillment of the promised prophet by morphology alone.
What limits the promised prophet's speech in Deuteronomy 18:18? He is to tell the people everything the Lord commands him, so his speech remains derivative of the Lord's own words.
Direct: I voices the Lord's first-person agency, command expresses authoritative instruction, and him renders the suffix whose antecedent is the singular prophet.
The imperfect belongs to the Lord's future promise in this discourse. The suffix identifies the singular prophet locally, but morphology alone does not exhaust the passage's fulfillment horizon.
The singular suffix made to identify a specific later person without the passage or canonical context doing that work: Do not use the suffix as a shortcut around the passage's literary setting, prophetic tests, or later canonical interpretation. I command him used to validate a modern speaker without the passage's tests of divine authorization and truthful fulfillment: Keep "I command him" connected to אֲצַוֶּֽנּוּ׃, row 15, and the full Deuteronomy 18:18 clause.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
Deuteronomy 18:18 row 15 aligns H6680 with I command him after the Lord promises to put his words in the prophet's mouth.
This row 15 H6680 witness concerns the Lord's instruction to the promised prophet, distinct from Israel commanding children in Deuteronomy 32:46.
The Piel imperfect carries the Lord's first-person common singular subject and a third-person masculine singular suffix for the promised prophet. The following speech clause identifies the content as everything the Lord commands him.
Deuteronomy 18:15-22 promises a prophet like Moses, locates his words under the Lord's command, and gives Israel standards for hearing and testing prophetic speech.
This command belongs to Deuteronomy's ordered provision for prophetic mediation; later fulfillment claims require attention to the wider canonical witness.
Trace I to the Lord and him to the prophet, then connect command with words placed in his mouth and with the testing instructions that follow.
Do not use the suffix as a shortcut around the passage's literary setting, prophetic tests, or later canonical interpretation.