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Rear Guard and Rhetoric: The Syntax of Order in Numbers 10:25
וְנָסַ֗ע דֶּ֚גֶל מַחֲנֵ֣ה בְנֵי־דָ֔ן מְאַסֵּ֥ף לְכָל־הַֽמַּחֲנֹ֖ת לְצִבְאֹתָ֑ם וְעַל־צְבָאֹ֔ו אֲחִיעֶ֖זֶר בֶּן־עַמִּישַׁדָּֽי׃
(Numbers 10:25)
And the banner of the camp of the sons of Dan set out, serving as rear guard for all the camps according to their hosts, and over his host was Aḥiʿezer son of ʿAmmishaddai.
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This study approaches the verse through functional syntax and discourse pragmatics, examining how clause structure, constituent order, and verbal morphology encode military organization and rhetorical emphasis. The analysis remains confined to this single verse and explores how grammatical form mirrors institutional order.… Learn Hebrew
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