| 28. Linguistic Exegesis The conditional clause begins with ve-im {וְאִם | wə-ʾim} ‘and if’ followed by the negation lo-matsa {לֹא־מָצָאָה | lō-mə-ṣā-ʾā} ‘not found’, where yado {יָד֗וֹ | yā-dō} ‘his hand’ functions idiomatically as ability, modified by dei {דֵּי | dē} ‘enough’. The infinitive hashiv lo {הָשִׁיב לוֹ | hā-šîḇ lō} ‘to restore to him’ marks the repurchase action. The nominal clause mimkaro be-yad ha-kone oto {מִמְכָּרוֹ בְּיַד הַקֹּנֶה אֹת֔וֹ | mim-kār-ô bə-yad ha-qō-nē ʾō-ṯô} ‘his sale in the hand of the buyer’ expresses legal status, with oto as the objective marker. The phrase ad shnat ha-yovel {עַד שְׁנַת הַיּוֹבֵל | ʿad šə-nat ha-yō-ḇel} ‘until the year of the jubilee’ sets the release boundary, followed by the vav-consecutive sequence ve-yatsa ba-yovel ve-shav {וְיָצָא בַּיּוֹבֵל וְשָׁב | wə-yā-ṣāʾ ba-yō-ḇel wə-šāḇ} ‘and he will go out in the jubilee and will return’, culminating in la-akhuzato {לַאֲחֻזָּתוֹ | la-ʾa-ḥu-zat-ô} ‘to his possession’. The use of construct chains and vav-consecutives structures the legal sequence and emphasizes the covenantal restoration. |