עֹנֵ֖הוּ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 עֹנֵ֖הוּ

   o-NE-hu

   answering him
2. phraseyour reading level🔊 וְאֵ֥ין עֹנֵ֖הוּ

   ve-EN o-NE-hu

   and there is not answering him
3. clause🔊 וְאֵ֥ין עֹנֵ֖הוּ מִכָּל־הָעָֽם׃

   ve-EN o-NE-hu mi-KOL-ha-AM

   and there is not answering him from all the people
4. sentence🔊 כִּ֣י חַי־יְהוָ֗ה הַמּוֹשִׁ֙יעַ֙ אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל כִּ֧י אִם־יֶשְׁנ֛וֹ בְּיוֹנָתָ֥ן בְּנִ֖י כִּ֣י מ֣וֹת יָמ֑וּת וְאֵ֥ין עֹנֵ֖הוּ מִכָּל־הָעָֽם׃

   KI KHAI-ye-ho-VAH ha-mo-SHI-a ET-yis-ra-EL KI IM-ye-SHE-no be-yo-na-TAN be-NI KI MOT ya-MUT ve-EN o-NE-hu mi-KOL-ha-AM

   for as the LORD lives the one saving Israel for if he is in Jonathan my son for dying he shall die and there is not answering him from all the people

Exegesis

The discourse concludes with the negative existential ve-ein onehu mikol-haam {וְאֵין עֹנֵהוּ מִכָּל־הָעָם | wə·ʾēn ʿō·nē·hū mi·kōl-hā·ʿām} ‘and there was no one answering him from all the people’, wherein the conjunction + existential negation + participle + prepositional phrase portray the community’s collective silence. In translating this sequence into English, distinct phrases preserve the oath’s solemnity, the conditional emphasis, the idiomatic certainty, and the silent communal response.

Root and etymology

ʿ-n-h🔊 ע־נ־הAyin, Nun, Heh

“to answer, respond”

• 🔊 תְּעֲנִיָּהteʿanîahresponseJob 32:14