לְהַפִּ֥יל

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 לְהַפִּ֥יל

   le-ha-PIL

   to make fall or to bring down
2. phraseyour reading level🔊 לְהַפִּ֥יל הַחוֹמָֽה׃

   le-ha-PIL ha-kho-MA

   to make fall or to bring down the wall
3. clause🔊 וְכָל־הָעָם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֶת־יוֹאָ֔ב מַשְׁחִיתִ֖ם לְהַפִּ֥יל הַחוֹמָֽה׃

   ve-khol-ha-AM a-SHER et-yo-AV mash-khi-TIM le-ha-PIL ha-kho-MA

   and all the people who or which {direct object marker} Joab were destroying them or were ruining them to make fall or to bring down the wall
4. sentence🔊 וַיָּבֹ֜אוּ וַיָּצֻ֣רוּ עָלָ֗יו בְּאָבֵ֙לָה֙ בֵּ֣ית הַֽמַּעֲכָ֔ה וַיִּשְׁפְּכ֤וּ סֹֽלְלָה֙ אֶל־הָעִ֔יר וַֽתַּעֲמֹ֖ד בַּחֵ֑ל וְכָל־הָעָם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֶת־יוֹאָ֔ב מַשְׁחִיתִ֖ם לְהַפִּ֥יל הַחוֹמָֽה׃

   va-ya-VO-u va-ya-TSU-ru a-LAV be-a-VE-la BET ham-ma-a-KHA va-yish-pe-KHU so-le-LA el-ha-IR va-ta-a-MOD ba-KHEL ve-khol-ha-AM a-SHER et-yo-AV mash-khi-TIM le-ha-PIL ha-kho-MA

   and they came and they besieged against him in Abel house of the Maacah and they poured out or cast up a siege-mound or ramp to the city and it stood against the rampart or within the outer wall and all the people who or which {direct object marker} Joab were destroying them or were ruining them to make fall or to bring down the wall

Exegesis

The participle mashchitim {מַשְׁחִיתִם | mash-chi-tim} “destroying” with the infinitive lehapil {לְהַפִּיל | lə-ha-pil} “to cause to fall” expresses the ongoing act of battering the defensive structure hachomah {הַחוֹמָה | ha-kho-ma}. The Hebrew word order places emphasis on the successive military operations, which the English reconstructions emulate for coherence and clarity.