1 Samuel 18:23:151 Sam.18.23.W15TAB
אִֽישׁ־רָ֥שׁ
ishrash
“a man poor”
- Transliteration
- ish-RASH
- Extended
- eesh-RAASH
- IPA
- /ʔiːʃ.ˈraːʃ/
Meaning by language
- English
- a man poor
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ish-RASH
- phraseyour reading level
ish-RASH ve-nik-LE
- clause
va-yo-MER da-VID han-ka-LA ve-e-ne-KHEM hit-khat-TEN ba-ME-lekh ve-a-no-KHI ish-RASH ve-nik-LE
- sentence
va-ye-da-be-RU av-DE sha-UL be-oz-NE da-VID et-ha-de-va-RIM ha-E-le va-yo-MER da-VID han-ka-LA ve-e-ne-KHEM hit-khat-TEN ba-ME-lekh ve-a-no-KHI ish-RASH ve-nik-LE
Exegesis
David’s self-description veanokhi ish-rash vuniqleh {וְאָנֹכִ֖י אִֽישׁ־רָ֥שׁ וְנִקְלֶֽה | wəʾānōkhî ʾîš-rāš wənīqleh} ‘and I am a poor and insignificant man’ employs a coordinated noun-adjective plus passive participle to underscore humility and social unworthiness. The Hebrew verbal-consecutive and prepositional constructs are rendered in English as a single cohesive sentence preserving the rhetorical question and contrast.
Root and etymology
r-š
In context — 1 Samuel 18:23
And the servants of Saul spoke these words in the ears of David, and David said, “Does it seem a small matter in your eyes to become the king’s son-in-law, since I am a poor and lightly regarded man?”
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 18:23:15 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 15 of 1 Samuel 18:23, so the Hebrew word אִֽישׁ־רָ֥שׁ (ishrash) 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.18.23.W15, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.18.23.W15.S1) and character.