| 13. Linguistic Exegesis The temporal adverb beadin {בֵּאדַ֤יִן | bē-ʾă-dayin} ‘then’ marks a narrative shift. The subject nevuḵadneṣar {נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּר֙ | nə-vū-ḵad-neṣ-ṣar} ‘Nebuchadnezzar’ is modified by birgaz {בִּרְגַ֣ז | bir-gaz} ‘in rage’ and the coordinate vahamah {וַחֲמָ֔ה | wa-ḥă-māh} ‘and fury,’ intensifying emotion. The verb amar {אֲמַר֙ | ʾă-mar} ‘he said’ introduces an indirect command with the infinitive lehaitaya {לְהַיְתָיָ֔ה | lə-hăy-tā-yā} ‘to bring.’ The proper nouns leshadrakh {לְשַׁדְרַ֥ךְ | lə-šaḏ-rakh}, meyshakh {מֵישַׁ֖ךְ | mē-šaḵ}, vaʿaved {וַעֲבֵ֣ד | wa-ʿă-vēd}, and nego {נְגוֹ | ne-gō} name the individuals summoned. A second beadin {בֵּאדַ֙יִן֙ | bē-ʾă-dayin} ‘then’ returns the narrative, and the phrase guvrayya illekh {גֻּבְרַיָּ֣א אִלֵּ֔ךְ | guv-ray-yā il-lekh} ‘these men’ functions as the direct object of heitayu {הֵיתָ֖יוּ | hē-tā-yū} ‘they brought.’ The prepositional phrase kodam malka {קֳדָ֥ם מַלְכָּֽא | ko-dām mal-kā} ‘before the king’ indicates the result. The English rendering preserves the Aramaic sequence and emphatic structure while clarifying subject-action relationships. |