| 6. Linguistic Exegesis The verse continues the military narrative by adding a new object, introduced by the direct-object-marker ve'et {וְאֶת־ | wə-ʾeṯ} attached to the prior verb. The term ha-chori {הַחֹרִי | ha-ḥō-rî} is governed by beharram {בְּהַרְרָם | bə-har-rām} ‘in their hill country,’ specifying the domain of the Horites, with seir {שֵׂעִיר | śē-ʿîr} identifying those highlands in apposition. The preposition ad {עַד | ʿaḏ} ‘up to’ sets the campaign’s boundary at eil paran {אֵיל פָּארָן | ʾêl pā-rān}, and the clause asher al ha-midbar {אֲשֶׁר עַל־הַמִּדְבָּר | ʾă-šer ʿal-ham-mid-bār} ‘which is by the wilderness’ locates El Paran adjacent to the desert. Hebrew presents this information through a chain of prepositional and appositional phrases, which the English renders sequentially to preserve the geographic progression. |