| 49. Linguistic Exegesis The verse is a brief entry within a larger town list, using repeated vav {וְ | wə} ‘and’ to coordinate items in a paratactic sequence. The name ve-qiryat-sannah {וְקִרְיַת־סַנָּ֖ה | wə-qîryaṯ-ṣannāh} is a construct chain: qiryat {קִרְיַת | qîryaṯ} ‘city of’ governs the following proper name, yielding a place designation “City of Sannah.” The independent pronoun hi {הִ֥יא | hīʾ} ‘it is’ functions as a copular equative, identifying Kiriath-Sannah with the alternate name dĕbir {דְבִֽר | dĕḇîr} ‘Debir.’ English commonly represents this Hebrew identification either with a relative clause (“which is”) or an appositional clarification (“that is”), both preserving the sense of equivalent naming without adding narrative detail. |