| 25. Linguistic Exegesis The verse opens with a vav-consecutive verb sequence: wayyāqām {וַיָּקָם | wayyāqām} ‘and he arose’, wayyēleḵ {וַיֵּלֶךְ | wayyēleḵ} ‘and he went’, and wayyāšāv {וַיָּשָׁב | wayyāšāv} ‘and he returned’, marking narrative progression. The phrase limqōmô {לִמְקֹמוֹ | limqōmô} ‘to his place’ employs the preposition lamed plus pronominal suffix to denote Balaam’s personal destination. The conjunctive wə-gam {וְגַם | wə-gam} ‘and also’ introduces a parallel clause with Bālāq {בָּלָק | Bālāq}, followed by hālaḵ {הָלַךְ | hālaḵ} ‘he went’ and lə-dar-kô {לְדַרְכּוֹ | lə-dar-kô} ‘to his way’, reinforcing symmetric structure. English rendering preserves the original verb sequence and possessive prepositional complements while adopting SVO order for clarity. |