| 4. Linguistic Exegesis The verse opens with the conjunction ve’eleh {וְאֵ֨לֶּה | wə-ʾêl-leh} ‘and these’, a summative device that introduces a concise list. The noun shemot {שְׁמוֹת | šə-môṯ} ‘names’ forms a nominal heading in construct with the participle hayeludim {הַיְּלוּדִ֔ים | ha-yə-lu-dîm} ‘the-born’, which together ground the relative clause introduced by asher {אֲשֶׁ֥ר | ʾă-šer} ‘that’, specifying those who hayu-lo {הָיוּ-ל֖וֹ | hā-yû-lō} ‘were to him’. The prepositional phrase birushalayim {בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם | bi-rû-ša-layim} ‘in Jerusalem’ provides locational context, after which the coordination of proper names (Shammua, Shobab, Natan, Solomon) completes the verbless clause. The English retains Hebrew word order and clause structure to emphasize lineage. |