| 22. Linguistic Exegesis The verse begins with the Qal perfect verb matsa {מָצָא | mā-ṣāʾ} ‘he found’ governing its direct object ’ishāh {אִשָּׁה | ’iš-šāh} ‘a wife’. The verb repeats to intensify: matsa {מָצָא | mā-ṣāʾ} ‘he found’ introduces the noun ṭō-ḇ {טוֹב | ṭō-ḇ} ‘good’. The Vav consecutive way-yā-peq {וַיָּפֶק | way-yā-peq} ‘and he brings forth’ shifts to result, with rā-ṣōn {רָצוֹן | rā-ṣōn} ‘favor’ as its object and mê-Yə-hō-wāh {מֵיְהוָה | mê-Yə-hō-wāh} ‘from the LORD’ specifying the divine source. The Hebrew verb–object–verb–object order constructs a parallelism, and the vav-consecutive marks the outcome of finding a wife. |