| 18. Linguistic Exegesis The verse uses a paratactic series of clitic conjunctions vav {וְ | wə} to link noun phrases: veha'chasidah {וְהַ֣חֲסִידָ֔ה | wə-ḥă-ṣî-ḏāh} ‘and the stork’, veha'anafah {וְהָאֲנָפָ֖ה | wə-ʾă-nā-p̄āh} ‘and the heron’, vehadukhifat {וְהַדּוּכִיפַ֖ת | wə-had-dū-ḵî-p̄aṯ} ‘and the hoopoe’, and veha'atallēph {וְהָעֲטַלֵּֽף | wə-ʿă-ṭal-lēp̄} ‘and the bat’. The construct phrase leminah {לְמִינָ֑הּ | lə-mî-nāh} ‘according to its kind’ functions as a genitival specification narrowing the category of herons, highlighting taxonomic classification. The repetitive vav-conjunction and ordinal structure create a rhythmic enumeration typical of Hebrew lists, which is mirrored in English by the repeated “and” and by translating ləmināh as “every kind of” in the dynamic rendering. |