| 6. Linguistic Exegesis The verse employs a vav-consecutive narrative chain with veyatsa {וְיָצָ֨א | və-yā-ṣāʾ} ‘and it went out’, venasav {וְנָסַ֧ב | və-nā-sav} ‘and it turned’, and veavar {וְעָבַ֣ר | və-ʿā-var} ‘and it passed over’, presenting a sequential boundary description. The definite noun hagvul {הַגְּב֛וּל | ha-gə-vul} recurs to maintain topic continuity. Locative nouns hayamah {הַיָּ֗מָּה | hā-yā-māh} and mizrakha {מִזְרָ֖חָה | miz-rā-ḥā} function as directional adverbials. The compounds taanat shiloh {תַּאֲנַ֣ת שִׁלֹ֑ה | ta-ʿă-nat šî-lō} link place names in construct state. The pronoun oto {אוֹת֔וֹ | ʾō-tō} specifies the direct object, and the prepositional phrases mitsafon {מִצָּפ֔וֹן | miṣ-ṣā-phōn} and mimizrach {מִמִּזְרַ֖ח | mim-miz-rā-ḥ} preserve orientation by marking ‘from the north’ and ‘from the east’, thus retaining the original geographic sequence. |