Psalm 2/Notes/Grammar.v. 6.881641

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The waw at the beginning of v. 6 functions at the discourse level "to signal text level disjunction or transition."[1] Specifically, in this case, it connects and contrasts YHWH's response to the nations' speech in v. 3. "The function of this type of speech-initial וְ is to mark a dispreferred response."[2]

  1. ↑ Bandstra 1995, 52.
  2. ↑ BHRG §40.23.4.3; see e.g., 1 Kgs 2:21-22.