Daniel 4:23:6Dan.4.23.W6TABWLC Daniel 4:20

נָחִ֣ת

nahkhit

descending

Transliteration
nah-KHIT
Extended
nah-KHEET
IPA
/naːˈħiθ/

Meaning by language

English
descending

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
נָ + חִ֣ת
nah + khit
nahkhit

Alphabet Analysis

Nunn as in new
Qametslong 'ah'
Chetch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Tavt as in top

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Word in context

  1. word

    nah-KHIT

  2. phraseyour reading level

    IR ve-kad-DISH nah-KHIT min-she-ma-YA

  3. clause

    ve-DI kha-ZA mal-KA IR ve-kad-DISH nah-KHIT min-she-ma-YA ve-a-MAR GOD-du i-la-NA ve-khab-bu-LU-hi be-RAM i-KAR shar-sho-HI be-ar-A she-vu-KU u-ve-e-SUR di-far-ZEL u-ne-KHASH be-dit-A DI ba-RA

  4. sentence

    ve-DI kha-ZA mal-KA IR ve-kad-DISH nah-KHIT min-she-ma-YA ve-a-MAR GOD-du i-la-NA ve-khab-bu-LU-hi be-RAM i-KAR shar-sho-HI be-ar-A she-vu-KU u-ve-e-SUR di-far-ZEL u-ne-KHASH be-dit-A DI ba-RA u-ve-TAL she-ma-YA yits-ta-BA ve-im-khe-YVAT ba-RA kha-la-KEH AD di-shiv-A i-da-NIN yakh-le-FUN a-lo-HI

Exegesis

The coordinated nouns ʿîr wəqaddîš {עִיר וְקַדִּישׁ | ʿîr wə-qad-dîš} function as the object of “saw,” presenting the figure first by title “watcher” and then by quality “holy one,” with the participle nāḥiṯ {נָחִת | nā-ḥiṯ} ‘descending’ and the prepositional phrase min-šəmayyā {מִן־שְׁמַיָּא | min-šə-may-yā} ‘from heaven’ forming a circumstantial description of how this being appears.

In contextDaniel 4:23

And that the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from heaven, and he said, “Hew down the tree and destroy it, yet leave the stump with its roots in the earth, with a band of iron and bronze in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let its portion be with the beasts of the field, until seven times pass over him.”

About this coordinate

Daniel 4:23:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Daniel 4:23, so the Hebrew word נָחִ֣ת (nahkhit) 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.4.23.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Dan.4.23.W6.S1) and character.