The Use of the Hifil Stem in Judges 3:1
Introduction to Judges 3:1 Judges 3:1 introduces a list of nations that YHWH left in the land to test Israel. A key grammatical feature in this verse is the Hifil (causative) verb הִנִּיחַ (hinni’aḥ), which comes from the root נוח (nu’aḥ, "to rest, leave, allow"). The Hifil stem is widely used in Biblical Hebrew to…