Ezekiel 16:15:4Ezek.16.15.W4TAB
עַל־שְׁמֵ֑ךְ
alshemekh
“upon your name or renown”
- Transliteration
- al-SHE-MEKH
- Extended
- ahl-SHEH-MEEKH
- IPA
- /ʕal.ʃəˈmeːx/
Meaning by language
- English
- upon your name or renown
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable |
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The word
Word in context
- word
al-SHE-MEKH
- 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 prepositional phrase be-yā-p̄-yê-ḵ {בְיָפְיֵךְ | bə-yā-p̄-yê-ḵ} ‘in your beauty’ marks the object of trust, followed by ʿal-šə-mê-ḵ {עַל־שְׁמֵךְ | ʿal-šə-mê-ḵ} ‘because of your name’, indicating motive.
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 16:15:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Ezekiel 16:15, so the Hebrew word עַל־שְׁמֵ֑ךְ (alshemekh) 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.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.16.15.W4.S1) and character.