לְשַׁחֲתָֽהּ׃ (lə·ša·ḥă·ṯāh) in Judges 6:5: Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | third person feminine singular
לְשַׁחֲתָֽהּ׃ (lə·ša·ḥă·ṯāh) in Judges 6:5
Source Word
Judges 6:5 row 16 aligns the lamed-prefixed H7843 Piel infinitive and feminine singular suffix with to ravage it.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
To ravage it links the host's entry to its intended result and resolves it as the land that the preceding clause says they entered. The BSB's to ravage captures the lamed infinitive's purpose force, and it renders the attached feminine singular suffix in relation to the land.
How To Communicate It
Connect the lamed infinitive to the purpose of entering, resolve it to the land, and identify the invading agents from the larger verse rather than from the infinitive alone.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not derive the identity of the attackers from a nonfinite form or treat the Piel stem as an automatic signal of violence.
- The feminine suffix agrees with the land in the immediate context; the morphology does not by itself name that antecedent.
- The form does not make the land a personal victim, identify the attackers from morphology alone, or say that every Piel use of H7843 means military devastation.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | third person feminine singular
Piel
Inf
Not applicable
Not applicable
Not applicable
Not applicable
Lamed preposition
Third person feminine singular
The lamed-prefixed Piel infinitive expresses the purpose of the invaders' entry, and its feminine singular suffix points back to the land. The infinitive itself carries no finite subject; the surrounding plural clauses identify the Midianites and their allies as those who come to ravage it.
The infinitive states the destructive aim of the incursion, while the suffix keeps the land as the place acted upon.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The invaders' movement into the land with their livestock and tents
The purpose relation that explains why the Midianite host entered Israel's territory in overwhelming numbers
The infinitive states the destructive aim of the incursion, while the suffix keeps the land as the place acted upon.
The form does not make the land a personal victim, identify the attackers from morphology alone, or say that every Piel use of H7843 means military devastation.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The form exposes the purpose behind the host's entry and keeps the devastated land grammatically in view.
The lamed-prefixed Piel infinitive expresses the purpose of the invaders' entry, and its feminine singular suffix points back to the land. The infinitive itself carries no finite subject; the surrounding plural clauses identify the Midianites and their allies as those who come to ravage it.. The infinitive states the destructive aim of the incursion, while the suffix keeps the land as the place acted upon.. Attached to the invaders' movement into the land with their livestock and tents. Governed by the purpose relation that explains why the Midianite host entered Israel's territory in overwhelming numbers. The form does not make the land a personal victim, identify the attackers from morphology alone, or say that every Piel use of H7843 means military devastation.
What does the infinitive explain, and what does its suffix identify in Judges 6:5? It explains that the invaders entered in order to ravage, and its feminine singular suffix points to the land they entered.
Direct: The BSB's to ravage captures the lamed infinitive's purpose force, and it renders the attached feminine singular suffix in relation to the land.
The feminine suffix agrees with the land in the immediate context; the morphology does not by itself name that antecedent. Piel participates in this destructive occurrence, but the lexeme, object, and invasion scene establish the specific force ravage.
The infinitive assigned a finite subject from its morphology or the feminine suffix treated as proof of personification: Do not derive the identity of the attackers from a nonfinite form or treat the Piel stem as an automatic signal of violence. to ravage it generalized into a definition of every H7843 occurrence or separated from the invading host: Keep "to ravage it" connected to לְשַׁחֲתָֽהּ׃, row 16, and the full Judges 6:5 clause.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
Judges 6:5 row 16 aligns the lamed-prefixed H7843 Piel infinitive and feminine singular suffix with to ravage it.
This row 16 H7843 witness concerns the purpose of a military incursion against the land, distinct from moral corruption or destruction expressed in other settings.
The lamed-prefixed Piel infinitive expresses the purpose of the invaders' entry, and its feminine singular suffix points back to the land. The infinitive itself carries no finite subject; the surrounding plural clauses identify the Midianites and their allies as those who come to ravage it.
Judges 6:1-6 depicts Midianite oppression as repeated invasion that consumed Israel's produce and left no sustenance, driving Israel into severe distress.
This ravaging belongs to the covenant-crisis setting that precedes Gideon's call; later teaching about judgment or deliverance must be established from its own context.
Connect the lamed infinitive to the purpose of entering, resolve it to the land, and identify the invading agents from the larger verse rather than from the infinitive alone.
Do not derive the identity of the attackers from a nonfinite form or treat the Piel stem as an automatic signal of violence.