| 44. Linguistic Exegesis The verse begins with the interjection hinneh {הִנֵּה | hin-nēh} ‘behold,’ followed by the construct kol-hamoshel {כָּל־הַמֹּשֵׁ֔ל | kol-ham-mō-šêl} ‘everyone who makes proverbs,’ with the participle indicating habitual action. The prepositional phrase alayikh {עָלַיִךְ | ʿā-lay-yiḵ} ‘against you’ specifies the addressee. The imperfect verb yimshol {יִמְשֹׁל | yim-šō-l} ‘will use a proverb’ carries a future or iterative nuance, and the infinitive leemor {לֵאמֹר | lē-ʾē-mōr} ‘to say’ introduces direct speech. The comparative keimah bittah {כְּאִמָּה בִּתָּהּ | kə-ʾim-māh bit-tāh} ‘like mother, like her daughter’ employs parallelism to convey analogical inheritance. |