וְאָבִ֣יו

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 וְאָבִ֣יו

   ve-a-VIV

   and his father
2. phraseyour reading level🔊 וְאָבִ֣יו אִישׁ־צֹרִ֑י

   ve-a-VIV ish-tso-RI

   and his father a man of Tyre
3. clause🔊 בֶּן־אִשָּׁ֞ה מִן־בְּנ֣וֹת דָּ֗ן וְאָבִ֣יו אִישׁ־צֹרִ֑י

   ben-ish-SHA min-be-NOT DAN ve-a-VIV ish-tso-RI

   son of a woman from the daughters of Dan and his father a man of Tyre
4. sentence🔊 בֶּן־אִשָּׁ֞ה מִן־בְּנ֣וֹת דָּ֗ן וְאָבִ֣יו אִישׁ־צֹרִ֑י יוֹדֵ֡עַ לַעֲשׂוֹת בַּזָּהָ֣ב־וּבַכֶּ֔סֶף בַּנְּחֹ֖שֶׁת בַּבַּרְזֶ֣ל בָּאֲבָנִ֣ים וּבָעֵצִ֗ים בָּאַרְגָּמָ֜ן בַּתְּכֵ֣לֶת וּבַבּ֤וּץ וּבַכַּרְמִיל֙ וּלְפַתֵּ֣חַ כָּל־פִּתּ֔וּחַ וְלַחְשֹׁ֖ב כָּל־מַחֲשָׁ֑בֶת אֲשֶׁ֤ר יִנָּֽתֶן־ל֔וֹ עִם־חֲכָמֶ֖יךָ וּבְחַכְמֵ֖י אֲדֹנִ֣י דָוִ֔יד אָבִֽיךָ׃

   ben-ish-SHA min-be-NOT DAN ve-a-VIV ish-tso-RI yo-DE-a la-a-SOT ba-za-HAV-u-va-KE-sef ban-ne-KHO-shet bab-bar-ZEL ba-a-va-NIM u-va-e-TSIM ba-ar-ga-MAN bat-te-KHE-let u-vab-BUTS u-vak-kar-MIL u-le-fa-TE-akh kol-pit-TU-akh ve-lakh-SHOV kol-ma-kha-SHA-vet a-SHER yin-na-TEN-LO im-kha-kha-ME-kha u-ve-khak-ME a-do-NI da-VID a-VI-kha

   son of a woman from the daughters of Dan and his father a man of Tyre skilled or knowing to do or to make in the gold and in the silver in the bronze in the iron in stones and in woods or timbers in the purple in the blue and in the fine linen and in the crimson and to engrave every engraving and to devise or plan every design or thought which it will be given to him with your skilled men and with the skilled men of my lord David your father

Exegesis

The coordinated nominal clause wə-’āvîw ’îš-ṣōrî {וְאָבִיו אִישׁ–צֹרִי | wə-’āvîw ’îš-ṣōrî} ‘and his father was a man of Tyre’ parallels paternal origin with an implied copula.