אֲשַׁלְּחֶ֑ךָּ (’ă·šal·lə·ḥe·kā) in 2 Samuel 11:12: Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular | second person masculine singular
אֲשַׁלְּחֶ֑ךָּ (’ă·šal·lə·ḥe·kā) in 2 Samuel 11:12
Source Word
Second Samuel 11:12 row 10 aligns the H7971 form with I will send you back in David's promise to Uriah.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
I will send you back sounds routine within David's speech, but the first-person agent and suffix-marked recipient become ominous as the next verses disclose the king's scheme. I directly represents the first-person subject, you represents Uriah's suffix, and back makes explicit the return to Joab and the campaign anticipated by the scene.
How To Communicate It
Mark the first-person king and second-person soldier, follow tomorrow into the next actions, and let verses 13-15 expose the purpose hidden from Uriah.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not moralize the stem or sanitize the scene; grammar identifies who sends whom, while the narrative reveals the corrupt intention.
- The imperfect receives straightforward future force from tomorrow in the direct speech.
- The form does not make the sending honorable, reveal David's concealed purpose to Uriah, or imply that Piel morphology itself carries deception.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular | second person masculine singular
Piel
Imperf
First
Common
Singular
Not applicable
Second person masculine singular
The Piel imperfect carries a first-person common singular subject in David's direct speech and a second-person masculine singular suffix for Uriah. Tomorrow supplies the future time, while back reflects the destination understood from David's plan to return him to the army.
The form presents David as the sender and Uriah as the person he promises to dispatch after a further delay.
What The Form Does In This Verse
David's instruction that Uriah remain in Jerusalem one more day
The king's escalating attempt to conceal his adultery after Uriah refuses to go home while Israel's forces remain in the field
The form presents David as the sender and Uriah as the person he promises to dispatch after a further delay.
The form does not make the sending honorable, reveal David's concealed purpose to Uriah, or imply that Piel morphology itself carries deception.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The form gives David direct agency over Uriah's movement at the moment the king's concealment turns toward lethal abuse.
The Piel imperfect carries a first-person common singular subject in David's direct speech and a second-person masculine singular suffix for Uriah. Tomorrow supplies the future time, while back reflects the destination understood from David's plan to return him to the army.. The form presents David as the sender and Uriah as the person he promises to dispatch after a further delay.. Attached to David's instruction that Uriah remain in Jerusalem one more day. Governed by the king's escalating attempt to conceal his adultery after Uriah refuses to go home while Israel's forces remain in the field. The form does not make the sending honorable, reveal David's concealed purpose to Uriah, or imply that Piel morphology itself carries deception.
Why is I will send you back morally charged in 2 Samuel 11:12? David is the sender and Uriah the recipient, but the surrounding narrative reveals that the delay and return are parts of David's effort to conceal sin.
Direct: I directly represents the first-person subject, you represents Uriah's suffix, and back makes explicit the return to Joab and the campaign anticipated by the scene.
The imperfect receives straightforward future force from tomorrow in the direct speech. Back is supplied from the narrative destination; the token marks sending and the participants without encoding David's motive.
The Piel stem blamed for the deceitful force that comes from David's purpose and the surrounding narrative: Do not moralize the stem or sanitize the scene; grammar identifies who sends whom, while the narrative reveals the corrupt intention. I will send you back treated as neutral administration without reading David's failed concealment and the death order that follows: Keep "I will send you back" connected to אֲשַׁלְּחֶ֑ךָּ, row 10, and the full 2 Samuel 11:12 clause.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
Second Samuel 11:12 row 10 aligns the H7971 form with I will send you back in David's promise to Uriah.
This row 10 H7971 witness concerns David's planned dispatch of Uriah, distinct from Isaiah's volunteered send me and other missions shaped by different agents and purposes.
The Piel imperfect carries a first-person common singular subject in David's direct speech and a second-person masculine singular suffix for Uriah. Tomorrow supplies the future time, while back reflects the destination understood from David's plan to return him to the army.
Second Samuel 11:11-15 contrasts Uriah's solidarity with the troops against David's manipulation, moving from delay and intoxication to the lethal letter Uriah unknowingly carries.
The promise belongs to the narrative exposure of David's sin and abuse of royal power; it should be read with the chapter's moral trajectory rather than as ordinary travel logistics.
Mark the first-person king and second-person soldier, follow tomorrow into the next actions, and let verses 13-15 expose the purpose hidden from Uriah.
Do not moralize the stem or sanitize the scene; grammar identifies who sends whom, while the narrative reveals the corrupt intention.