| 30. Linguistic Exegesis The narrative opens with vayyannakh {וַיַּנַּח | wayyannaḥ} ‘and he laid,’ marked by the vav-consecutive to signal sequence. The particle et {אֶת | ʾet} identifies nivlāṯō {נִבְלָתוֹ | nivlāṯō} ‘his corpse’ as the object, and the prepositional phrase bĕ-qivrō {בְּקִבְר֑וֹ | bĕ-qivrō} ‘in his tomb’ specifies location. A coordinating vav introduces vayyispədû {וַיִּסְפְּדוּ | wayyispədû} ‘and they mourned,’ shifting to communal action, and ʿalāyv {עָלָיו | ʿalāyv} ‘over him’ centers the grief. The interjection hōy {הוֹי | hōy} expresses lament, followed by ʾāḥî {אָחִי | ʾāḥî} ‘my brother’ as a vocative. The compact Hebrew sequence—burial, setting, group response, emotional outcry—is mirrored in the English through parallel clauses to preserve narrative flow. |