| 16. Linguistic Exegesis The verse begins with the conjunctive waw in u-milchamah {וּמִלְחָמָה | ū-mi-l-cha-māh} ‘war’, marking narrative continuity. The Qal perfect verb hayetah {הָיְתָה | hā-ye-tāh} agrees with the feminine subject. The paired prepositions bein {בֵּין | bēn} and uvein {וּבֵ֛ן | ū-bēn} frame the opposing parties. The appositional construction melekh Yisrael {מֶלֶךְ־יִשְׂרָאֵל | me-lekh-yi-srā-ʼēl} ‘king of Israel’ omits the definite article, typical in Hebrew apposition. The temporal phrase kol yemeihem {כָּל־יְמֵיהֶם | kol-ye-mē-hem} ‘all their days’ employs kol in construct to indicate the full span of their reigns, rendered in formal and adapted idiomatically in dynamic. |