Deuteronomy 13:17:14Deut.13.17.W14TABWLC Deuteronomy 13:18
נִשְׁבַּ֥ע
nishba
“He swore”
- Transliteration
- nish-BA
- Extended
- nish-BAH
- IPA
- /niʃˈbaʕ/
Meaning by language
- English
- He swore
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal |
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The word
Word in context
- word
nish-BA
- phraseyour reading level
nish-BA la-a-vo-TE-kha
- clause
ve-hir-BEKH-kha ka-a-SHER nish-BA la-a-vo-TE-kha
- sentence
ve-LO-yid-BAK be-yad-KHA me-u-MAH min-ha-KHE-rem le-MA-an ya-SHUV Ye-ho-VAH me-kha-RON a-PO ve-na-TAN le-KHA ra-kha-MIM ve-ri-KHAM-kha ve-hir-BEKH-kha ka-a-SHER nish-BA la-a-vo-TE-kha
Exegesis
The oath clause begins with kaasher {כַּאֲשֶׁר | ka-ʾă-šer} ‘as,’ followed by the perfect nishba {נִשְׁבַּע | niš-bāʿ} ‘he swore’ and laavotekha {לַאֲבֹתֶיךָ | la-ʾă-vo-te-khā} ‘to your fathers,’ anchoring the promise in the ancestral covenant. The interplay of negation, purpose, result, and oath clauses underscores a conditional promise of divine mercy and blessing.
Root and etymology
š-b-ʿshin–bet–ayin
“to swear”
In context — Deuteronomy 13:17
And nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand, so that the LORD may turn from the burning of His anger and show you mercy and have compassion on you, and increase you, as He swore to your fathers.
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 13:17:14 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 14 of Deuteronomy 13:17, so the Hebrew word נִשְׁבַּ֥ע (nishba) 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 Deut.13.17.W14, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.13.17.W14.S1) and character.