וַֽיְקַדְּשֵֽׁהוּ׃ס (way·qad·də·šê·hū) in Exodus 20:11: Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
וַֽיְקַדְּשֵֽׁהוּ׃ס (way·qad·də·šê·hū) in Exodus 20:11
Source Word
Exodus 20:11 row 26 aligns the waw-linked H6942 form and masculine singular suffix with and set it apart as holy.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
And set it apart as holy identifies the Lord's own action toward the Sabbath day and supplies the foundation for Israel's commanded response. And carries the linked narrative sequence, set apart as holy conveys the Piel action, and it renders the suffix whose antecedent is the Sabbath day.
How To Communicate It
Follow the subject from made to rested, blessed, and consecrated, then resolve it to the Sabbath day before discussing Israel's observance.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not collapse the Lord's consecrating action into Israel's manner of observance or let one morphology label answer later covenant questions.
- The consecutive form advances the rationale's action sequence; therefore connects that sequence to the named day.
- The form does not make the day a moral person, imply that created things were unholy, or define every practice of Sabbath observance by morphology alone.
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 consecutive imperfect continues the creation rationale with the Lord as third-person masculine singular subject and a third-person masculine singular suffix referring to the Sabbath day. The sequence follows the Lord's blessing of that day.
The form presents the Lord's consecration of the Sabbath day as the final action in the rationale supporting the command.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The statement that the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy
The creation pattern of six days of making and a seventh day of rest offered as the reason for Sabbath observance
The form presents the Lord's consecration of the Sabbath day as the final action in the rationale supporting the command.
The form does not make the day a moral person, imply that created things were unholy, or define every practice of Sabbath observance by morphology alone.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The form closes the creation rationale by making the Lord's consecration of the Sabbath explicit and suffix-specific.
The waw-linked Piel consecutive imperfect continues the creation rationale with the Lord as third-person masculine singular subject and a third-person masculine singular suffix referring to the Sabbath day. The sequence follows the Lord's blessing of that day.. The form presents the Lord's consecration of the Sabbath day as the final action in the rationale supporting the command.. Attached to the statement that the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy. Governed by the creation pattern of six days of making and a seventh day of rest offered as the reason for Sabbath observance. The form does not make the day a moral person, imply that created things were unholy, or define every practice of Sabbath observance by morphology alone.
What does the Lord set apart as holy in Exodus 20:11? The suffix points to the Sabbath day, which the Lord blesses and consecrates after the six-and-one creation pattern is recalled.
Direct: And carries the linked narrative sequence, set apart as holy conveys the Piel action, and it renders the suffix whose antecedent is the Sabbath day.
The consecutive form advances the rationale's action sequence; therefore connects that sequence to the named day. Setting the day apart is a status and purpose claim, not an assertion that the day has personal moral character.
The suffix assigned to an unstated object instead of the Sabbath day named immediately before it: Do not collapse the Lord's consecrating action into Israel's manner of observance or let one morphology label answer later covenant questions. set it apart as holy used to make the calendar day a moral agent or to settle every later Sabbath question from one form: Keep "and set it apart as holy" connected to וַֽיְקַדְּשֵֽׁהוּ׃ס, row 26, and the full Exodus 20:11 clause.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
Exodus 20:11 row 26 aligns the waw-linked H6942 form and masculine singular suffix with and set it apart as holy.
This row 26 H6942 witness describes the Lord consecrating the Sabbath day, distinct from the addressees' commanded keeping of it in Exodus 20:8.
The waw-linked Piel consecutive imperfect continues the creation rationale with the Lord as third-person masculine singular subject and a third-person masculine singular suffix referring to the Sabbath day. The sequence follows the Lord's blessing of that day.
Exodus 20:8-11 grounds Israel's Sabbath command in the Lord's work, seventh-day rest, blessing of the day, and act of setting it apart.
The consecrated day belongs to the Decalogue's creation-shaped Sabbath rationale; later covenantal and theological questions require the whole biblical witness.
Follow the subject from made to rested, blessed, and consecrated, then resolve it to the Sabbath day before discussing Israel's observance.
Do not collapse the Lord's consecrating action into Israel's manner of observance or let one morphology label answer later covenant questions.