Daniel 4:20:8Dan.4.20.W8TABWLC Daniel 4:17
יִמְטֵ֣א
yimte
“reached”
- Transliteration
- yim-TE
- Extended
- yihm-TAY
- IPA
- /jɪmˈteː/
Meaning by language
- English
- reached
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
yim-TE
- phraseyour reading level
yim-TE lish-ma-YA
- clause
veh-roo-MEH yim-TE lish-ma-YA va-kha-zo-TEH le-KHOL-ar-A
- sentence
EE-la-NA DEE kha-ZAI-ta DEE re-VA u-te-KIF veh-roo-MEH yim-TE lish-ma-YA va-kha-zo-TEH le-KHOL-ar-A
Exegesis
The phrase wərûmēh yimṭēʾ lišmayyā {וְרוּמֵהּ יִמְטֵא לִשְׁמַיָּא | wə-rû-mēh yim-ṭēʾ liš-may-yā} forms the next clause, where wərûmēh ‘and its height’ (a noun with pronominal suffix) functions as the subject and yimṭēʾ ‘reached’ as the imperfect verb, presenting the height as an ongoing or characteristic extension rather than a punctiliar event. The prepositional phrase lišmayyā ‘to the heavens’ specifies the extreme vertical limit of this height.
Root and etymology
m-ṭ-ʾmem–tet–aleph
“to reach, attain, come upon”
In context — Daniel 4:20
The tree that you saw, which grew great and strong, whose height reached to the heavens , and whose appearance was visible to all the earth.
About this coordinate
Daniel 4:20:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Daniel 4:20, so the Hebrew word יִמְטֵ֣א (yimte) 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.4.20.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Dan.4.20.W8.S1) and character.