| 18. Linguistic Exegesis The verse begins with veyade’u {וְיָדְעוּ | wə-yā-ḏə-‘ū} ‘and they will know’, formed by the vav consecutive plus the Qal perfect, marking a sequential revelation. The proper noun mitsrayim {מִצְרַיִם | mi-ṣrā-yim} ‘Egyptians’ functions as the subject of divine disclosure. The conjunction ki {כִּי | kî} ‘that’ introduces a content clause clarifying the revelation’s content: ani {אֲנִי | ’ănî} ‘I’ paired with the divine name Yahweh {יְהוָה | Yə-hō-wāh} ‘LORD’ asserts God’s covenant identity. The Nifal infinitive construct behikavdi {בְּהִכָּבְדִי | bə-hî-kā-və-dî} ‘when I am glorified’ serves as a temporal clause denoting divine self-manifestation. A triad of prepositional phrases—bepar’oh {בְּפַרְעֹה | bə-pā-rō-’ōh} ‘through Pharaoh’, berikhvo {בְּרִכְבּוֹ | bə-rî-ḵə-vo} ‘through his chariots’, uvefarashav {וּבְפָרָשָׁיו | ū-və-pā-rā-šāw} ‘and through his horsemen’—creates parallelism and builds rhetorical intensity, emphasizing the means of divine glory’s demonstration against Egypt’s military might. The formal translation maintains the Hebrew claim “will know that I am the LORD,” while the dynamic choice of “realize” aims for immediate reader engagement. Formal’s “when I am glorified” preserves passive nuance, whereas dynamic’s “when I show my glory” clarifies active divine agency. |