| 18. Linguistic Exegesis The verse begins with the conjunctive preposition veishah {וְאִשָּׁה | wə-ʾiš-šā(h)} ‘and a woman’, marking an additional case within the purity regulations. The relative pronoun asher {אֲשֶׁר | ʾă-šer} ‘who’ introduces the subordinate clause, with yiškav {יִשְׁכַּב | yiškav} ‘will lie’ (Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular) governing the man (ish {אִישׁ | ʾîš} ‘man’) and the direct object marker otah {אֹתָהּ | ʾō-ṭā(h)} ‘her’. The construct phrase šikhvat zāraʿ {שִׁכְבַת־זָרַע | šikh-vat zā-rāʿ} ‘lying of seed’ establishes the ritual condition. The vav-consecutive verbs wəraḥaṣû {וְרָחֲצוּ | wə-ra-ḥa-ṣū} ‘and they shall wash’ and wəṭāmeʾû {וְטָמְא֖וּ | wə-ṭā-me-ʾū} ‘and they shall be unclean’ apply equally to both participants. The prepositional phrase ba-mayim {בַּמַּיִם | ba-ma-yim} ‘with water’ specifies the purification medium, and ʿad-hā-ʿārev {עַד־הָעָֽרֶב | ʿad-hā-ʿā-rev} ‘until the evening’ defines the temporal limit of the impurity. |