| 46. Linguistic Exegesis The Hebrew text begins with the participial subject veha-ba {וְהַבָּא֙ | vǝ-habbāʾ} ‘entering one’, functioning generically. The prepositional phrase el habbayit {אֶל־הַבַּ֔יִת | ʾel hab-bā-yit} introduces direction. The construct kol yemei hisgir oto {כָּל־יְמֵ֖י הִסְגִּ֣יר אֹת֑וֹ | kâl yĕmê hisgîr ʾōṯō} expresses duration – ‘all the days of his isolating it’ – with hisgîr in the Hiphil perfect indicating causative closure. The imperfect yiṭmā {יִטְמָ֖א | yiṭmā} conveys a resultant state ‘becomes unclean’. The preposition ʿad {עַד־ | ʿad} marks the temporal limit, ending with ha-ʿāreḇ {הָעָֽרֶב | ha-ʿā-reḇ} ‘the evening’. In translation, the participle is rendered as a finite clause for clarity, the agent of hisgîr is specified by context, the Qal imperfect/resultative nuance is given as ‘shall be unclean’, and the temporal phrase retains its emphasis on the impurity’s duration. |