a.hal describes setting up a tent or encampment, whether in settlement or in a place left uninhabited.

The attested use describes setting up a tent: Abram and Lot do so in places of settlement, while Isaiah uses the action negatively for a place where no Arab will do so.

1. Setting up a tent in settlement · dominant

   In Genesis 13:12, the Qal sequential imperfect occurs in the clause where Lot dwells in the cities of the plain and the APB renders the action "pitched a tent as far as Sodom." In Genesis 13:18, the same morphology accompanies Abram's move and settlement by the oaks of Mamre; the APB renders, "Abram pitched his tent and came and settled."

   Genesis 13:12Genesis 13:18
2. Tent-setting denied in desolation · occasional

   In Isaiah 13:20, the Piel imperfect, 3rd masculine singular appears in the declaration that the place will not be inhabited; the APB renders the clause, "no Arab will pitch his tent there."

   Isaiah 13:20

In the Anselm Paraphrase: The APB uses "pitched a tent" for the Genesis clauses and "pitch his tent" in Isaiah 13:20. Because the paraphrase is not word-aligned, these renderings confirm the clauses' tent-setting context rather than isolate every nuance of the Hebrew form.