2 Samuel 22:27:32 Sam.22.27.W3TAB
וְעִם־עִקֵּ֖שׁ
veimikeish
“and with a crooked one”
- Transliteration
- ve-IM-i-KEISH
- Extended
- veh-ihm-ih-KEESH
- IPA
- /vəʕim.ʕiqˈqeːʃ/
Meaning by language
- English
- and with a crooked one
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 | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-IM-i-KEISH
- clause
ve-IM-i-KEISH tit-pa-AL
- sentence
IM-na-VAR tit-ta-VAR ve-IM-i-KEISH tit-pa-AL
Exegesis
The verse presents a chiastic parallelism of two prepositional clauses introduced by im {עִם | ʿim} ‘with’, establishing divine reciprocity.
The first clause links navar {נָבָ֖ר | nā-var} ‘the pure’ with the reflexive Hithpael titabar {תִּתָּבָ֑ר | tit-tā-var} ‘you will show yourself pure’; the second pairs ve-im {וְעִם | wə-ʿim} ‘and with’ plus ikkesh {עִקֵּ֖שׁ | ʿik-kēš} ‘the crooked’ and its reflexive titapal {תִּתַּפָּֽל | tit-ta-pāl} ‘you will show yourself shrewd’. In translating the Hebrew VSO structure to English SVO, the contrast and balanced structure are preserved by maintaining the paired prepositions and reflexive verbs in both clauses.
Root and etymology
ʿ-q-šʿayin–qof–shin
“to twist, be perverse”
In context — 2 Samuel 22:27
With the pure, You show Yourself pure; but with the crooked , You show Yourself contrary.
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 22:27:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of 2 Samuel 22:27, so the Hebrew word וְעִם־עִקֵּ֖שׁ (veimikeish) 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.22.27.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.22.27.W3.S1) and character.