| 21. Linguistic Exegesis The verse opens with vehatsaphir hasaʿir {וְהַצָּפִ֥יר הַשָּׂעִ֖יר | wə-ḥā-ṣā-p̄îr haś-śā-ʿîr} ‘and the male goat,’ equated with melekh yavan {מֶלֶךְ יָוָן | me-leḵ yā-wān} ‘king of Greece.’ The conjunction wə {וְ | wə} introduces vehakeren hagedolah {וְהַקֶּרֶן הַגְּדוֹלָה | wə-ha-qe-ren hag-ḡə-ḏō-lāh} ‘and the great horn,’ defined by ʾăšer {אֲשֶׁר | ʾă-šer} ‘that’ plus the locative bên-ʿênāyw {בֵּין־עֵינָיו | bēn-ʿê-nāw} ‘between his eyes.’ The independent pronoun hûʾ {ה֖וּא | hûʾ} serves as an emphatic copula in the verbless clause identifying the horn as hammelekh harîšôn {הַמֶּלֶךְ הָרִאשֽׁוֹן | ham-me-leḵ harî-šōn} ‘the first king,’ with the inversion underscoring its primacy. |