קִצְרֵי־יָ֔ד

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 קִצְרֵי־יָ֔ד

   kits-re-YAD

   short of hand or short-handed
2. clause🔊 וְיֹֽשְׁבֵיהֶן֙ קִצְרֵי־יָ֔ד חַ֖תּוּ וַיֵּבֹ֑שׁוּ

   ve-yo-she-VE-hem kits-re-YAD kha-TU va-ye-VO-shu

   and their inhabitants short of hand or short-handed were shattered or were dismayed and they were put to shame
3. sentence🔊 וְיֹֽשְׁבֵיהֶן֙ קִצְרֵי־יָ֔ד חַ֖תּוּ וַיֵּבֹ֑שׁוּ הָי֞וּ עֵ֤שֶׂב שָׂדֶה֙ וִ֣ירַק דֶּ֔שֶׁא חֲצִ֣יר גַּגּ֔וֹת וּשְׁדֵפָ֖ה לִפְנֵ֥י קָמָֽה׃

   ve-yo-she-VE-hem kits-re-YAD kha-TU va-ye-VO-shu ha-YU E-sev sa-DE vi-RAK DE-she kha-tsir ga-GOT u-she-de-FA lif-NE ka-MA

   and their inhabitants short of hand or short-handed were shattered or were dismayed and they were put to shame they became or they were grass or plant of a field and green growth or and green thing tender grass or fresh grass grass or hay rooftops and scorching or and blight before standing grain or stalk

Exegesis

The verse opens with the subject veyoshvehen {וְיֹשְׁבֵיהֶן | wə-yō-šḇē-hên} ‘and their inhabitants’, followed by the idiomatic descriptor kitzrei-yad {קִצְרֵי־יָד | qiṣ-rê-yāḏ} ‘lacking power’.

Root and etymology

q-ṣ-r🔊 ק־צ־רqof tsade resh

“to be short, scanty”

• 🔊 קָצַרqā-ṣarto reap, be briefRuth 2:9