Ezekiel 16:19:5Ezek.16.19.W5TAB
וָשֶׁ֤מֶן
vashemen
“and oil”
- Transliteration
- va-SHE-men
- Extended
- vaa-SHEH-mehn
- IPA
- /vaːˈʃɛmɛn/
Meaning by language
- English
- and oil
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Nun Sofit | final form of Nun — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-SHE-men
- phraseyour reading level
SO-let va-SHE-men u-de-VASH
- clause
ve-lakh-MI a-sher-na-TAT-ti LAKH SO-let va-SHE-men u-de-VASH he-e-khal-TIKH u-ne-tat-TI-hu lif-ne-HEM le-RE-akh ni-KHO-akh va-ye-HI
- sentence
ve-lakh-MI a-sher-na-TAT-ti LAKH SO-let va-SHE-men u-de-VASH he-e-khal-TIKH u-ne-tat-TI-hu lif-ne-HEM le-RE-akh ni-KHO-akh va-ye-HI ne-UM a-do-NAI ye-ho-VAH
Exegesis
The relative clause introduced by asher {אֲשֶׁר־ | ʾă-šer} ‘which’ specifies the items: solet {סֹלֶת | sō-leṯ} ‘fine flour,’ shemen {שֶׁמֶן | šeh-men} ‘oil,’ and devash {דְבַשׁ | ḏə-ḇaš} ‘honey,’ each linked by waw.
Root and etymology
Rootshin–mem–nun
“oil, fat”
In context — Ezekiel 16:19
And my bread , which I gave to you—fine flour, oil, and honey with which I fed you—you set it before them as a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord GOD .
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 16:19:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Ezekiel 16:19, so the Hebrew word וָשֶׁ֤מֶן (vashemen) 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.16.19.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.16.19.W5.S1) and character.