Daniel 4:23:7Dan.4.23.W7TABWLC Daniel 4:20
מִן־שְׁמַיָּ֡א
minshemaya
“from the heavens”
- Transliteration
- min-she-ma-YA
- Extended
- mihn-sheh-mah-YAA
- IPA
- /min.ʃəmajˈjaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- from the heavens
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Nun Sofit | final form of Nun — at word end | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
min-she-ma-YA
- phraseyour reading level
IR ve-kad-DISH nah-KHIT min-she-ma-YA
- 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
- 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.
Root and etymology
š-m-yshin–mem–yod
“heaven, sky”
In context — Daniel 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 4:23:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Daniel 4:23, so the Hebrew word מִן־שְׁמַיָּ֡א (minshemaya) 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.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Dan.4.23.W7.S1) and character.