| 17. Linguistic Exegesis The verse opens with the vav-consecutive verb vayomeru {וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ | wayyōmerû} ‘and they said’, which continues the judges narrative. The construct chain yerushat peleitah functions as a determinate phrase, where yerushat {יְרֻשַּׁ֥ת | yĕrûšaṯ} ‘inheritance’ is governed by peleitah {פְּלֵיטָ֖ה | pəlēyṭāh} ‘remnant’, specifying the obligation. The prepositional phrase le-vinyamin {לְבִנְיָמִ֑ן | lə-vīnyāmīn} ‘for Benjamin’ marks the beneficiary. The coordination with velo-yimmahe {وְלֹֽא־יִמָּחֶ֥ה | wə-lōʾ yimmāḥê} ‘and not be wiped out’ introduces a purpose clause, emphasizing the communal effort to prevent tribal erasure. The Hebrew sequence of obligation followed by purpose underlines a resultative relationship, mirrored in English by “so that” to link necessity and outcome. |