| 42. Linguistic Exegesis The verse begins with the imperfect verb tihyeinah {תִּֽהְיֶ֙ינָה֙ | tihyēnāh} ‘they shall be’, introducing a distributive statement. The repeated noun ʿîr {עִיר | ʿîr} ‘city’ emphasizes individual provision. The conjunction vav in umigrāšêhā {וּמִגְרָשֶׁ֖יהָ | umigrāšêhā} links pasturelands to each city, further specified by sevivōtêhā {סְבִיבֹתֶ֑יהָ | sevivōtêhā} ‘surrounding it’. The adverb kēn {כֵּן | kēn} signals a concluding summary, and the phrase ləkol hāʾellēh {לְכָל־הֶעָרִים הָאֵֽלֶּה | ləkol hāʾellēh} ‘for all these cities’ generalizes the rule. The English rendering preserves Hebrew distributive emphasis and clarifies each city’s territorial bounds. |