Ezekiel 14:13:2Ezek.14.13.W2TAB
אֶ֚רֶץ
erets
“a land”
- Transliteration
- E-rets
- Extended
- EH-rehts
- IPA
- /ˈʔɛ.rɛts/
Meaning by language
- English
- a land
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tsade Sofit | final form of Tsade — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
E-rets
- clause
ben-a-DAM E-rets KI te-khe-TA-li lim-e-AL-ma-AL ve-na-TI-ti ya-DI a-LE-ha ve-sha-VAR-ti LA ma-TE-la-KHEM
- sentence
ben-a-DAM E-rets KI te-khe-TA-li lim-e-AL-ma-AL ve-na-TI-ti ya-DI a-LE-ha ve-sha-VAR-ti LA ma-TE-la-KHEM ve-hish-lakh-TI-va ra-AV ve-hikh-RAT-ti mim-me-NA a-DAM u-ve-he-MA
Exegesis
The conditional ki {כִּי | kî} introduces the hypothetical scenario where eretz {אֶרֶץ | ʾe-reṣ} ‘land’ is personified.
Root and etymology
ʾ-r-ṣaleph–resh–tsade
“land, earth”
In context — Ezekiel 14:13
Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it and break its staff of bread , and send famine into it, and cut off from it both man and beast.
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 14:13:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Ezekiel 14:13, so the Hebrew word אֶ֚רֶץ (erets) 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 Ezek.14.13.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.14.13.W2.S1) and character.