Daniel 3:10:8Dan.3.10.W8TAB
דִּֽי־יִשְׁמַ֡ע
diyishma
“who hears”
- Transliteration
- di-yish-MA
- Extended
- dee-yihsh-MAH
- IPA
- /diː.jiʃˈmaʕ/
Meaning by language
- English
- who hears
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal |
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Word in context
- word
di-yish-MA
- clause
an-TA ANT mal-KA SAM-ta te-EM DI khol-e-NASH di-yish-MA KAL kar-NA mash-ro-ki-TA ki-te-RAS kat-ROS sab-KHA fe-san-te-RIN ve-si-fe-NYA ve-su-po-NYA ve-KHOL ze-NE ze-ma-RA
- sentence
an-TA ANT mal-KA SAM-ta te-EM DI khol-e-NASH di-yish-MA KAL kar-NA mash-ro-ki-TA ki-te-RAS kat-ROS sab-KHA fe-san-te-RIN ve-si-fe-NYA ve-su-po-NYA ve-KHOL ze-NE ze-ma-RA yip-PEL ve-yis-GUD le-TSE-lem da-ha-VA
Exegesis
The relative clause kol-e-NASH di-yishma {כָל־אֱנָשׁ דִּֽי־יִשְׁמַע | kol-ʾe-nāš dī- yiš-maʿ} ‘every person who hears’ is introduced by the particle di {דִּ֣י | dī}.
In context — Daniel 3:10
You, O king, have established a decree that every person who hears the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, harp, trigon, psalteries, or bagpipe, and every kind of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image.
About this coordinate
Daniel 3:10:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Daniel 3:10, so the Hebrew word דִּֽי־יִשְׁמַ֡ע (diyishma) 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 Dan.3.10.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Dan.3.10.W8.S1) and character.