| 15. Linguistic Exegesis This verse begins with the predicate noun navi {נָבִיא | nāwî} ‘prophet’, followed by two parallel prepositional phrases, miqqirbekha {מִקִּרְבְּךָ | miqqərbəḵā} ‘from your midst’ and me’aħekha {מֵאַחֶיךָ | mē’āḥêḵā} ‘from your brothers’, that specify the prophet’s origin. The comparative clause kamoni {כָּמֹנִי | kāmô-nî} ‘like me’ explicitly recalls Moses’s prophetic role. The Hiphil imperfect yakim {יָקִים | yāqîm} ‘he will raise up’ introduces divine causation, performed by the compound divine agent Yahweh Elohekha {יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ | Yə-hō-wāh ʼĕlōhêḵā}. The dative lekha {לְךָ | ləḵā} ‘for you’ personalizes the promise, while elav {אֵלָיו | ʼêlāyv} ‘to him’ highlights the prophet’s mediatorial function. The Qal imperfect imperative tishma‘un {תִּשְׁמָעוּן | tišmā‘ûn} ‘you shall listen’ issues a communal command. The English rendering preserves the Hebrew parallelism, comparative structure, and imperative force. |