| 6. Linguistic Exegesis The verse is built from two coordinated clauses joined by waw, forming a compact set of restoration images. The opening verbal clause yelchu {יֵלְכוּ | yēlĕkû} ‘they will go’ takes yoneqotav {יֹנְקֹותָיו | yōnəqōṯāw} ‘his young shoots’ as its subject, using a motion verb metaphorically to portray outward spreading and vigorous growth. The second clause begins with vihi {וִיהִי | wîhî} ‘and he will be,’ shifting from what “goes out” (shoots) to what “he is” (the restored one), then stacks two similes marked by kə “like”: khazayit {כַזַּיִת | ka-zāyit} ‘like an olive tree’ modifies hodo {הוֹדוֹ | hōdô} ‘his splendor,’ and kallvanon {כַּלְּבָנוֹן | kalləḇānôn} ‘like Lebanon’ completes the comparison for verēaḥ lô {וְרֵיחַ לוֹ | wərēaḥ lô} ‘and fragrance to him,’ where lô expresses fragrance associated with him (emanating from him). The parallelism (growth → beauty → fragrance) creates a climactic sensory progression, and the English renderings keep the paired “like … like …” structure while smoothing the metaphor of “go” into “spread/extend” to match the figurative context. |