| 10. Linguistic Exegesis The verse begins by fronting the object noun phrase periyamo {פְּרִיָּמוֹ | pərîyyāmô} ‘fruit’ with its locative me’erets {מֵאֶרֶץ | mēʾereṣ} ‘from the earth’ before the verb teabed {תְּאַבֵּד | təʾabbed} in the intensive Piel stem, highlighting what is to be eradicated. The coordinating conjunction ve- then introduces the parallel object vezaraam {וְזַרְעָם | wəzarʿām} ‘seed’ with its locative phrase mibnei adam {מִבְּנֵי אָדָם | mibbənê ʾāḏām} ‘from among the sons of man’, reinforcing total removal through symmetrical structure. The double prepositional layering intensifies the scope. In English, the prefixed objects are rendered before the verb to preserve the Hebrew topicalization and parallelism. |