| 30. Linguistic Exegesis The verse employs synonymous parallelism in two hemistichs. The first hemistich links the noun construct khaburot petsa {חַבֻּרוֹת פֶּצַע | ḥă-bbū-rōt pê-ṣaʿ} ‘wounds of a blow’ to the piel verb-object sequence tamriq tamruq bera {תַּמְרִ֣יק תַּמְרוּק בְּרָ֑ע | tam-rîq tam-rûq bə-rāʿ} ‘purges purging of evil’, intensifying the action through the use of the piel stem {piel | piʿel} ‘intensive action’. The second hemistich, introduced by the conjunction waw, presents umakot khadrei-vaten {וּמַכּ֗וֹת חַדְרֵי־בָֽטֶן | ū-mak-kōṯ ḥă-drê-ḇā-ṭen} ‘and blows the inward parts of the belly’, indicating a parallel consequence from external wounds to internal effect. English translation preserves this structure by pairing “wounds… and blows” and by reflecting the verb-noun cognate pair in a verb-object construction to maintain the Hebrew rhetorical balance and the movement from corrective action to inward transformation. |