Daniel 4:30:13Dan.4.30.W13TABWLC Daniel 4:27
חִסְנִ֑י
khisni
“my strength”
- Transliteration
- khis-NI
- Extended
- khihs-NEE
- IPA
- /ħisˈniː/
Meaning by language
- English
- my strength
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Samekh | s as in sit | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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The word
Word in context
- word
khis-NI
- clause
a-NE mal-KA ve-a-MAR ha-LA da-HEE va-VEL rav-TA di-a-NA ve-NAY-ta le-VET mal-KHU bit-KAF khis-NI
- sentence
a-NE mal-KA ve-a-MAR ha-LA da-HEE va-VEL rav-TA di-a-NA ve-NAY-ta le-VET mal-KHU bit-KAF khis-NI u-li-KAR had-RI
Exegesis
The instrumental phrase biṯqāf ḥisnî {בִּתְקָף חִסְנִי | biṯqāf ḥisnî} “by the might of my power” stacks two strength terms for heightened emphasis, and the final purpose phrase wəlîqār hadrî {וְלִיקָר הַדְרִי | wə-lîqār hadrî} “and for the honor of my majesty” pairs two abstract nouns, “honor” and “majesty,” each marked as belonging to the king. Together these clauses create a crescendo of first person focus. The English renderings preserve the rhetorical question, the piling up of self-referential expressions, and the instrumental (“by the might of my power”) and purposive (“for the honor of my majesty”) prepositional phrases, while using natural subject–verb–object order.
Root and etymology
ḥ-s-nChet–Samekh–Nun
“to be strong, firm, secure”
In context — Daniel 4:30
The king answered and said, “Is this not the great Babylon that I have built as a house for the kingdom , by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?”
About this coordinate
Daniel 4:30:13 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 13 of Daniel 4:30, so the Hebrew word חִסְנִ֑י (khisni) 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.4.30.W13, which extends further down to each syllable (Dan.4.30.W13.S1) and character.