2 Samuel 17:29:32 Sam.17.29.W3TAB
וְצֹאן֙
vetson
“and sheep or flock”
- Transliteration
- ve-TSON
- Extended
- veh-TSOHN
- IPA
- /vəˈtsoːn/
Meaning by language
- English
- and sheep or flock
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 | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Nun Sofit | final form of Nun — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-TSON
- clause
u-de-VASH ve-khem-A ve-TSON u-she-FOT ba-KAR hi-GI-shu le-da-VID ve-la-AM a-sher-i-TO le-e-KHOL
- sentence
u-de-VASH ve-khem-A ve-TSON u-she-FOT ba-KAR hi-GI-shu le-da-VID ve-la-AM a-sher-i-TO le-e-KHOL KI a-me-RU ha-AM ra-EV ve-a-YEF ve-tsa-ME ba-mi-de-BAR
Exegesis
The verse begins with a coordinated list introduced by ve- “and” attaching udavash {וּדְבַשׁ | u·davāš} ‘honey’, vechemah {וְחֶמְאָה | wə·ḥemʾāh} ‘curds’, vetsoʾn {וְצֹאן | wə·ṣōˈn} ‘sheep’, ʾušfəwṯ {וּשְׁפֹות | u·šə·p̄ōṯ} ‘cheeses’, and bāqār {בָּקָר | bā·qār} ‘cattle’ before the hiphil verb higgîšû {הִגִּישׁוּ | hig·gî·šû} ‘they brought’.
Root and etymology
ṣ-ʾ-ntsade–aleph–nun
“flock, small livestock”
In context — 2 Samuel 17:29
And honey and curds and sheep and cheeses of cattle they brought to David and to the people who were with him to eat, because they said, “The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.”
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 17:29:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of 2 Samuel 17:29, so the Hebrew word וְצֹאן֙ (vetson) 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 Sam.17.29.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.17.29.W3.S1) and character.