1 Chronicles 17:16:121 Chr.17.16.W12TAB
בֵיתִ֔י
veti
“my house”
- Transliteration
- ve-TI
- Extended
- veh-TEE
- IPA
- /veːˈtiː/
Meaning by language
- English
- my house
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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Word in context
- word
ve-TI
- phraseyour reading level
u-MI ve-TI
- clause
va-yo-MER MI-a-NI ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HIM u-MI ve-TI KI ha-vi-o-TA-ni AD-ha-LOM
- sentence
va-ya-VO ham-ME-lekh da-VID va-ye-SHEV lif-NE ye-ho-VAH va-yo-MER MI-a-NI ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HIM u-MI ve-TI KI ha-vi-o-TA-ni AD-ha-LOM
Exegesis
The interrogatives mî-ʼănî {מִי־אֲנִי | mî-ʼănî} ‘who am I’ and ûmî bēyîtî {וּמִי בֵיתִי | ûmî bēyîtî} ‘and who is my house’ form a parallelism that expresses humility.
Root and etymology
b-y-t
“house”
In context — 1 Chronicles 17:16
Then King David came and sat before the LORD , and he said, “Who am I, LORD God, and what is my house , that You have brought me this far?”
About this coordinate
1 Chronicles 17:16:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of 1 Chronicles 17:16, so the Hebrew word בֵיתִ֔י (veti) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written 1 Chr.17.16.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Chr.17.16.W12.S1) and character.