| 3. Linguistic Exegesis The negative particle lo {לֹא | lō} ‘not’ precedes the imperfect verb toʾakhal {תֹאכַל | tô-ʾa-khal} ‘you shall eat’ to form a prohibitive jussive clause. The quantifier kol {כָּל | kol} ‘all, any’ attaches via maqqef to the noun tôʿēḇâ {תּוֹעֵבָה | tô-ʿê-vâ} ‘detestable thing,’ yielding the compound kol-tôʿēḇâ as the direct object. For clarity in English, an SVO word order with explicit negation (‘shall not eat’ in formal, ‘do not eat’ in dynamic) preserves the force of the Biblical Hebrew prohibition. |