Ezekiel 14:15:11Ezek.14.15.W11TAB
הַחַיָּֽה׃
hakhaya
“the wild animal”
- Transliteration
- ha-kha-YA
- Extended
- hah-khah-YAA
- IPA
- /haħajˈjaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- the wild animal
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
ha-kha-YA
- clause
ve-ha-ye-TA she-ma-MA mi-be-LI o-VER mi-pe-NE ha-kha-YA
- sentence
lu-kha-YA ra-A a-a-VEER ba-A-rets ve-shi-ke-LA-ta ve-ha-ye-TA she-ma-MA mi-be-LI o-VER mi-pe-NE ha-kha-YA
Exegesis
The prepositional phrase miblī ʿōbēr mip-pə-nê ha-ḥay-yāh {מִבְּלִ֣י עוֹבֵ֔ר מִפְּנֵ֖י הַחַיָּֽה | mib-lî ʿō-ḇēr mip-pə-nê ha-ḥay-yāh} ‘without passage because of the beast’ emphasizes the utter exclusion of travelers. English word order is adjusted for natural flow while preserving the Hebrew conditional-causal sequence.
Root and etymology
ח־י־ה
“living thing”
In context — Ezekiel 14:15
If I cause an evil beast to pass through the land and it bereaves it , and it becomes desolate with no one passing through because of the beast .
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 14:15:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of Ezekiel 14:15, so the Hebrew word הַחַיָּֽה׃ (hakhaya) 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.14.15.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.14.15.W11.S1) and character.