| 33. Linguistic Exegesis The verse advances with a tight chain of wayyiqtol clauses, moving action-to-result-to-speech: vayyakh {וַיַּךְ | wayyak} ‘and he struck’ culminates in vayomer {וַיֹּאמֶר | wayyōmer} ‘and he said,’ shifting from narrated event to urgent direct address. The opening subject veish {וְאִישׁ | wəʾîš} is indefinite (“a man”), keeping the agent anonymous, while letumo {לְתֻמּוֹ | ləṭummô} frames the shot as not deliberately aimed, heightening the irony of the outcome. The wound location is specified by the paired prepositional markers bein ... uvein {בֵּין ... וּבֵין | bên ... ûḇên}, which bracket the impact “between” two protective points, stressing precision rather than general injury. In the quoted command, hapokh {הֲפֹךְ | hăpōḵ} places the imperative first for urgency, and vehotseitani {וְהוֹצֵאתַנִי | wəhoṣēʾṯānî} follows as the requested action (“bring me out”), while ki {כִּי | kî} introduces the stated reason, hacholeiti {הָחֳלֵיתִי | hāḥŏlēṯî}, presenting the king’s condition as the immediate cause for withdrawal. |