1 Samuel 17:44:71 Sam.17.44.W7TAB
אֶת־בְּשָׂ֣רְךָ֔
etbesarekha
“your flesh”
- Transliteration
- et-be-sa-re-KHA
- Extended
- eht-beh-saa-reh-KHAA
- IPA
- /ʔɛt.bəsaːrˈχaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- your flesh
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' |
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The word
Word in context
- word
et-be-sa-re-KHA
- clause
le-KHA e-LAI ve-et-te-NA et-be-sa-re-KHA le-OF ha-sha-MA-yim u-le-ve-he-MAT ha-sa-DE
- sentence
va-YO-mer ha-pe-lish-TI el-da-VID le-KHA e-LAI ve-et-te-NA et-be-sa-re-KHA le-OF ha-sha-MA-yim u-le-ve-he-MAT ha-sa-DE
Exegesis
The direct object marker et {אֶת | ʾeṯ} introduces besarkha {בְּשָׂרְךָ | bə-śār-ḵā} ‘your flesh’, which is allocated to two parallel objects: leof hashamayim {לְעוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם | lə-ʿôp̄ ha-šā-ma-yim} ‘to the bird of the heavens’ and ulevehemat hasadeh {וּלְבֶהֱמַת הַשָּׂדֶה | u-lə-vhe-hə-māṯ ha-ṣā-dê} ‘and to the beast of the field’. This chiastic parallelism intensifies the threat, and both English reconstructions preserve the coordinated structure while applying stylistic variation.
Root and etymology
b-s-rbet-shin-resh
“flesh”
In context — 1 Samuel 17:44
And the Philistine said to David, “Draw near to me, and I will consign your flesh to the carrion birds of the sky and to the wild beasts of the field.”
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 17:44:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of 1 Samuel 17:44, so the Hebrew word אֶת־בְּשָׂ֣רְךָ֔ (etbesarekha) 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 Sam.17.44.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.17.44.W7.S1) and character.