| 8. Linguistic Exegesis The verse begins with the noun el {אֵל | ʾēl} ‘God’ as subject followed by the Hiphil participle mōṣîʾō {מוֹצִיאוֹ | mōṣîʾō} ‘bringing him out’, indicating causative ongoing action. The prepositional phrase mimmîṣrayim {מִמִּצְרַיִם | mimmîṣrayim} ‘from Egypt’ sets the deliverance context. The simile kə-tô-ʿa-p̄ōt {כְּתוֹעֲפֹת | kə-tô-ʿa-p̄ōt} ‘like the horns’ with reʾêm {רְאֵם | reʾêm} ‘wild ox’ employs vivid power imagery, and the suffix lō marks possession. The Qal imperfect yōʾə-kal {יֹאכַל | yōʾə-kal} ‘he will eat’ introduces the action against gôyim ṣārāw {גּוֹיִם צָרָיו | gôyim ṣārāw} ‘nations his adversaries’. The Piel imperfect ye-gā-rēm {יְגָרֵם | ye-gā-rēm} ‘he will break’ intensifies the action on we-ʿaṣ-mō-tê-hem {וְעַצְמֹתֵיהֶם | we-ʿaṣ-mō-tê-hem} ‘their bones’, and the final Qal imperfect yim-ḥāṣ {יִמְחָץ | yim-ḥāṣ} ‘he will smash’ completes the triadic parallelism, heightening the sense of overwhelming victory. |