Ezekiel 16:15:3Ezek.16.15.W3TAB
וַתִּזְנִ֖י
vatizni
“and you prostituted yourself”
- Transliteration
- va-tiz-NI
- Extended
- vah-tihz-NEE
- IPA
- /vat.tizˈniː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and you prostituted yourself
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Zayin | z as in zero | |
| 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
va-tiz-NI
- clause
va-tiv-te-KHI ve-yaf-YEKH va-tiz-NI al-SHE-MEKH
- sentence
va-tiv-te-KHI ve-yaf-YEKH va-tiz-NI al-SHE-MEKH va-tish-pe-KHI et-ta-ze-nu-TAI-yikh al-kol-o-VER lo-ye-HI
Exegesis
The verse unfolds through a sequence of wayyiqtol verbs with the vav-consecutive prefix, vattibṭaḥî {וַתִּבְטְחִ֣י | waṯ-tib-ṭaḥ-î} ‘you trusted’, vattiznî {וַתִּזְנִ֖י | waṯ-tiz-nî} ‘you played the harlot’, and vattišpəḵî {וַתִּשְׁפְּכִ֧י | waṯ-tiš-pə-ḵî} ‘you poured out’, all in second person feminine singular addressing Jerusalem as a female figure.
In context — Ezekiel 16:15
But you trusted in your beauty and became unfaithful because of your name ; you poured out your acts of harlotry upon every passerby—it belonged to him.
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 16:15:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Ezekiel 16:15, so the Hebrew word וַתִּזְנִ֖י (vatizni) 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.16.15.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.16.15.W3.S1) and character.