| 3. Linguistic Exegesis The verse opens with Yahweh {יְהוָה | Yə-hō-wāh} ‘LORD’ in the absolute for emphasis. The construct ish milchamah {אִישׁ מִלְחָמָה | ʾîš mil-ḥā-māh} ‘man-of-war’ links man and war without a conjunction, portraying Yahweh as the combatant. The repetition of Yahweh {יְהוָה | Yə-hō-wāh} followed by the pronominal suffix in shemo {שְׁמֽוֹ | še-mō} ‘his name’ reinforces divine identity through parallelism. Hebrew asyndeton omits the definite article to heighten poetic force. The formal translation preserves the genitive nuance of the compound, while the dynamic rendering uses idiomatic phrasing to convey vivid battle imagery. |