וַֽיְקַדְּשֵׁ֗ם (way·qad·də·šêm) in Job 1:5: Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine plural
וַֽיְקַדְּשֵׁ֗ם (way·qad·də·šêm) in Job 1:5
Source Word
Job 1:5 row 8 aligns the waw-linked H6942 Piel form and masculine plural suffix with to purify them in Job's regular practice.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
To purify them keeps Job's action directed toward all his children and opens the repeated sequence that culminates in offerings for each one. The BSB's purpose-like English phrasing fits the sending context, while them directly reflects the attached plural suffix and the Hebrew consecutive form carries the customary sequence forward.
How To Communicate It
Keep perhaps in Job's reasoning, resolve them to his children, and follow purification into the offerings and repeated-practice statement.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not turn Job's precaution into certainty about his children or claim that the grammatical stem makes parental ritual spiritually effective by itself.
- The BSB expresses the action as the purpose of sending for the children, while the Hebrew consecutive form also participates in the sequence of Job's regular actions.
- The form does not say the children had certainly sinned, guarantee that ritual action controls their hearts, or establish Job's practice as a command for every household.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine plural
Piel
ConsecImperf
Third
Masculine
Singular
Not applicable
Waw conjunction
Third person masculine plural
The waw-linked Piel consecutive imperfect presents Job as the masculine singular agent and attaches a masculine plural suffix for his children. The BSB places the action naturally under Job would send for his children to purify them, while the Hebrew form itself advances his repeated sequence.
The finite form records Job's preparatory action toward all his children before the offerings, with the suffix gathering them as its direct participants.
What The Form Does In This Verse
Job's regular response after each completed cycle of his children's feasting
The pattern of sending, preparing the children, rising early, and offering burnt offerings because Job feared possible inward sin
The finite form records Job's preparatory action toward all his children before the offerings, with the suffix gathering them as its direct participants.
The form does not say the children had certainly sinned, guarantee that ritual action controls their hearts, or establish Job's practice as a command for every household.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The form places all the children within Job's recurring preparatory action and anchors his concern before the offerings are described.
The waw-linked Piel consecutive imperfect presents Job as the masculine singular agent and attaches a masculine plural suffix for his children. The BSB places the action naturally under Job would send for his children to purify them, while the Hebrew form itself advances his repeated sequence.. The finite form records Job's preparatory action toward all his children before the offerings, with the suffix gathering them as its direct participants.. Attached to Job's regular response after each completed cycle of his children's feasting. Governed by the pattern of sending, preparing the children, rising early, and offering burnt offerings because Job feared possible inward sin. The form does not say the children had certainly sinned, guarantee that ritual action controls their hearts, or establish Job's practice as a command for every household.
Whom does Job purify, and why does he act in Job 1:5? Job acts toward all his children after their feasts because he fears they may have sinned inwardly, then offers burnt offerings for each of them.
Direct: The BSB's purpose-like English phrasing fits the sending context, while them directly reflects the attached plural suffix and the Hebrew consecutive form carries the customary sequence forward.
The BSB expresses the action as the purpose of sending for the children, while the Hebrew consecutive form also participates in the sequence of Job's regular actions. Job's concern is explicitly possible hidden sin, not narrated proof that every feast ended in guilt.
The consecutive imperfect reduced to an abstract infinitive and separated from the repeated narrative sequence: Do not turn Job's precaution into certainty about his children or claim that the grammatical stem makes parental ritual spiritually effective by itself. to purify them treated as proof that Job knew they were guilty or could cleanse their hearts mechanically: Keep "to purify them" connected to וַֽיְקַדְּשֵׁ֗ם, row 8, and the full Job 1:5 clause.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
Job 1:5 row 8 aligns the waw-linked H6942 Piel form and masculine plural suffix with to purify them in Job's regular practice.
This row 8 H6942 occurrence concerns Job preparing his children in a precautionary worship practice, distinct from consecrating the Sabbath day in Exodus 20.
The waw-linked Piel consecutive imperfect presents Job as the masculine singular agent and attaches a masculine plural suffix for his children. The BSB places the action naturally under Job would send for his children to purify them, while the Hebrew form itself advances his repeated sequence.
Job 1:5 portrays Job's vigilant piety: after family feasts he acts regularly on behalf of his children because he considers the possibility of hidden sin before God.
This purification belongs to the narrative portrait of Job before his trials; later biblical teaching about sacrifice, confession, and parental responsibility must be read on its own terms.
Keep perhaps in Job's reasoning, resolve them to his children, and follow purification into the offerings and repeated-practice statement.
Do not turn Job's precaution into certainty about his children or claim that the grammatical stem makes parental ritual spiritually effective by itself.