Ezekiel 16:17:9Ezek.16.17.W9TAB

וַתַּעֲשִׂי־לָ֖ךְ

vataasilakh

“and you made for yourself”

Transliteration: va-ta-a-SI-LAKH
Extended: vah-tah-ah-SEE-LAAKH
IPA: /vat.ta.ʕaˈsiː.laːx/

Meaning by language

English: and you made for yourself

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result

וַ + תַּ + עֲ + שִׂי + לָ֖ךְ

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va + ta + a + si + lakh

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vataasilakh

Alphabet Analysis

	Vav	v as in vine; marks long ō / ū
	Patach	short 'ah' as in father
	Tav	t as in top
	Patach	short 'ah' as in father
	Ayin	deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal
	Hateph Patach	reduced 'ah'
	Shin	shin with right dot; sin with left dot
	Hireq	'ee' as in machine
	Yod	y as in yes; marks long ī
	Lamed	l as in law
	Qamets	long 'ah'
	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
va-ta-a-SI-LAKH
clause
va-tik-KHI ke-LE tif-a-re-TEKH miz-ze-ha-VI u-mik-kas-PI a-SHER na-TAT-ti LAKH va-ta-a-SI-LAKH tsal-ME za-KHAR
sentence
va-tik-KHI ke-LE tif-a-re-TEKH miz-ze-ha-VI u-mik-kas-PI a-SHER na-TAT-ti LAKH va-ta-a-SI-LAKH tsal-ME za-KHAR va-tiz-NI-VAM

Exegesis

The narrative resumes with vattaasilaakh {וַתַּעֲשִׂי־לָ֖ךְ | wattăʿăśî-lāḵ} ‘and you made for yourself’, leading to the construct ṣalmê zāḵār {צַלְמֵ֣י זָכָ֑ר | ṣalmê zāḵār} ‘images of men’, signaling idolatry.

In context — Ezekiel 16:17

And you took the ornaments of your beauty from my gold and my silver, which I had given you, and you made for yourself images of men, and you committed adultery with them.

About this coordinate

Ezekiel 16:17:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Ezekiel 16:17, so the Hebrew word וַתַּעֲשִׂי־לָ֖ךְ (vataasilakh) 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.16.17.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.16.17.W9.S1) and character.

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