בָּ֑הּ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 בָּ֑הּ

   BAH

   in it
2. clause🔊 אִם־אַתֶּם֙ תָּבֹ֣אוּ אֶל־הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֤ר נָשָׂ֙אתִי֙ אֶת־יָדִ֔י לְשַׁכֵּ֥ן אֶתְכֶ֖ם בָּ֑הּ

   IM-a-TEM ta-VO-u el-ha-A-retz a-SHER na-sa-TI et-ya-DI le-sha-KEN et-KHEM BAH

   if you shall come into the land which I swore with my hand to cause to dwell you in it
3. sentence🔊 אִם־אַתֶּם֙ תָּבֹ֣אוּ אֶל־הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֤ר נָשָׂ֙אתִי֙ אֶת־יָדִ֔י לְשַׁכֵּ֥ן אֶתְכֶ֖ם בָּ֑הּ כִּ֚י אִם־כָּלֵ֣ב בֶּן־יְפֻנֶּ֔ה וִיהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ בִּן־נֽוּן׃

   IM-a-TEM ta-VO-u el-ha-A-retz a-SHER na-sa-TI et-ya-DI le-sha-KEN et-KHEM BAH KI IM-ka-LEV ben-ye-fu-NEH vi-ye-ho-SHU-a bin-NUN

   if you shall come into the land which I swore with my hand to cause to dwell you in it but except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun

Exegesis

The Qal perfect nasati {נָשָׂאתִי | nā-sā-ʾtî} ‘I have lifted up’ marks the divine oath gesture, followed by the Piel infinitive le-sha-ken {לְשַׁכֵּן | lə-ša-kēn} ‘to settle’ which governs the direct object et-khem {אֶתְכֶם | ʾet-khem} ‘you’ and the locative bah {בָּהּ | bāh} ‘in it.’ The exception clause im-Kalev ben-Yephunneh and wi-ye-ho-shu-ʿa bin-nun employs the adversative to single out Caleb and Joshua as sole heirs. English renders the original conditional/apodosis and oath idiom through a negative declarative and carefully placed relative and infinitive constructions.

Root and etymology

ט־ו־ב🔊 tet-vav-bet

“to be good”