| 18. Linguistic Exegesis The verse opens with the vav-consecutive hitpael verb hitpael {וַיִּתְאַנַּף | way·yiṯ·ta·nap̄} ‘divine self-intensification’ signaling intensive anger, immediately followed by the subject Yahweh {יְהוָה | Yəhōwāh} ‘covenantal name’. This is followed by the prepositional phrase beyisrael {בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל | bə·yiś·rā·ʾēl} ‘target of wrath’. A successive vav-consecutive hiphil verb hiphil {וַיְסִרֵם | way·yə·sî·rêm} ‘causative expulsion’ frames God’s action to remove the people, and the spatial metaphor meʿal panav with meʿal {מֵעַל | mē·ʿal} ‘from above’ and panav {פָּנָיו | pā·nāw} ‘presence’ indicates removal from divine presence. The negator lo {לֹא | lōʾ} ‘not’ before the niphal perfect niphal {נִשְׁאַר | nis·hār} ‘stative remainder’ yields ‘there remained none’. The restrictor raq {רַק | raq} ‘only’ then narrows the scope to the construct chain shevet yehudah levado, where shevet {שֵׁבֶט | še·ḇeṯ} ‘tribe’ and levado {לְבַדּוֹ | lə·ḇad·dô} ‘alone’ convey exclusive survival for Judah. |