2 Kings 19:27:12 Kgs.19.27.W1TAB
וְשִׁבְתְּךָ֛
veshivtekha
“and your sitting”
- Transliteration
- ve-shiv-TE-kha
- Extended
- veh-shihv-TEH-khaa
- IPA
- /vəʃivˈtɛ.xaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and your sitting
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| 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
ve-shiv-TE-kha
- clause
ve-shiv-TE-kha ve-tse-ET-kha u-VO-a-kha ya-DA-TE
- sentence
ve-shiv-TE-kha ve-tse-ET-kha u-VO-a-kha ya-DA-TE ve-ET hit-ra-GEZ-kha e-LAI
Exegesis
The verse uses a merism of three parallel constructs—veshivtekha {וְשִׁבְתְּךָ֛ | wə-šib-tə-ḵā} ‘your sitting’, vetzetekha {וְצֵאתְךָ֥ | wə-ṣē-ʾət-ḵā} ‘your going out’, and uvoakha {וּבֹאֲךָ֖ | u-ḇō-ʾă-ḵā} ‘your coming in’—linked by vav conjunctions to denote totality of actions.
Root and etymology
sh-b-tshin–bet–tav
“to sit, dwell”
In context — 2 Kings 19:27
I have known your sitting , and your going out and your coming in, and your raging against Me .
About this coordinate
2 Kings 19:27:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of 2 Kings 19:27, so the Hebrew word וְשִׁבְתְּךָ֛ (veshivtekha) 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 2 Kgs.19.27.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.19.27.W1.S1) and character.