צִפֲרֵ֥י

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 צִפֲרֵ֥י

   tsi-fe-REI

   birds of
2. phraseyour reading level🔊 צִפֲרֵ֥י שְׁמַיָּֽא׃

   tsi-fe-REI she-ma-YA

   the heavens birds of
3. sentence🔊 וְעָפְיֵ֤הּ שַׁפִּיר֙ וְאִנְבֵּהּ שַׂגִּיא֔א וּמָזוֹן לְכֹ֖לָּא־בֵֽהּ תְּחֹות֗וֹהִי תְּדוּר֙ חֵיוַ֣ת בָּרָ֔א וּבְעַנְפֹ֥והִי יְשְׁכְּנָ֖ן צִפֲרֵ֥י שְׁמַיָּֽא׃

   veh-af-YEH sha-PIR veh-in-BEH sa-GI-a oo-ma-ZON leh-kho-LAA-beh te-kho-to-HI te-DUR KHEI-vat ba-RA oo-ve-an-FO-hi ye-shke-NAN tsi-fe-REI she-ma-YA

   beautiful and its foliage abundant and its fruit for all in it and food dwelt under it the field beasts of lived and in its branches the heavens birds of

Exegesis

The balancing clause uses yiškənan {יִשְׁכְּנַן | yiš-kə-nan}, Peal imperfect third masculine plural with energic nun, with ṣipprê {צִפְּרֵי | ṣip-pə-rê} “birds of” as subject and šemayyāʾ {שְׁמַיָּא | šə-may-yāʾ} “the heavens, the sky” as its genitive complement. The repetition of dwelling verbs (tədur and yiškənan) together with the vertical pair of prepositional phrases (“under it” and “in its branches”) creates a meristic picture: creatures of the earth below and birds of the sky above all find shelter and habitat in relation to this single tree. In translation, the Aramaic word order—where prepositional phrases such as teḥôtôhî often precede the verb—is adjusted to standard English subject–verb–complement patterns (“under it the beasts of the field would dwell” → “under it the beasts of the field would dwell / Wild animals lived under its shade”), while preserving the hierarchical relationships encoded in the construct chains ḥeiwat bārāʾ and ṣipprê šemayyāʾ through English genitive phrases (“beasts of the field,” “birds of the heavens / sky”).