Ezekiel 16:38:5Ezek.16.38.W5TAB
דָּ֑ם
dam
“blood”
- Transliteration
- DAM
- Extended
- DAAM
- IPA
- /ˈdaːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- blood
Alphabet Analysis
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
DAM
- clause
u-she-FAT-tik mish-pe-TE no-a-FOT ve-sho-fe-KHOT DAM
- sentence
u-she-FAT-tik mish-pe-TE no-a-FOT ve-sho-fe-KHOT DAM u-ne-TAT-tik DAM khe-MA ve-kin-A
Exegesis
This is expanded by the participle veshofkhot dam {וְשֹׁפְכֹ֖ת דָּ֑ם | wə-šō-p̄ə-ḵōṯ dām} ‘and those who shed blood.’
The second vav-consecutive unetatikh {וּנְתַתִּ֕יךְ | û-nə-ṯat-tîḵ} ‘and I will give you’ introduces the consequence, with dam chemah ve-kinah {דַּ֥ם חֵמָ֖ה וְקִנְאָֽה | dām ḥê-māh wə-qin-’āh} functioning as the noun phrase ‘blood in wrath and jealousy.’ The parallel vav+verb pattern intensifies the pronouncement, shifting from legal standard to enacted judgment and underscoring divine severity.
Root and etymology
Rootaleph dalet mem
“man, human”
In context — Ezekiel 16:38
And I will judge you as adulteresses and bloodshed perpetrators are judged, and I will give you blood in wrath and jealousy.
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 16:38:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Ezekiel 16:38, so the Hebrew word דָּ֑ם (dam) 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.16.38.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.16.38.W5.S1) and character.