Exodus 15:15:11Exod.15.15.W11TAB
יֹשְׁבֵ֥י
yoshvei
“inhabitants of”
- Transliteration
- yosh-VEI
- Extended
- yohsh-VEE
- IPA
- /joːʃˈveː/
Meaning by language
- English
- inhabitants of
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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Word in context
- word
yosh-VEI
- phraseyour reading level
yosh-VEI ke-na-AN
- clause
na-MO-gu KOL yosh-VEI ke-na-AN
- sentence
AZ niv-ha-LU al-loo-FEI e-DOM ei-LEI mo-AV yo-a-kha-ZE-mo RA-ad na-MO-gu KOL yosh-VEI ke-na-AN
Exegesis
The final clause employs niphal perfect namogu {נָמֹ֕גוּ | namogu | nā-mô-gû} together with emphatic kol yoshvei kana‘an {כֹּ֖ל יֹשְׁבֵ֥י כְנָֽעַן | kol yoshvei kana‘an | kôl yô-šĕ-ḇê kə-nā-ʿăn} to depict total collapse. This tripartite parallelism intensifies the progression from terror to trembling to melting through syntactic symmetry and repetition.
Root and etymology
y-sh-v
“to sit, dwell, cause to return”
In context — Exodus 15:15
Then the chiefs of Edom were terrified; the leaders of Moab were seized by trembling; all the inhabitants of Canaan melted away.
About this coordinate
Exodus 15:15:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of Exodus 15:15, so the Hebrew word יֹשְׁבֵ֥י (yoshvei) 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 Exod.15.15.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.15.15.W11.S1) and character.