Ezekiel 16:44:7Ezek.16.44.W7TAB
בִּתָּֽהּ׃
bitta
“her daughter”
- Transliteration
- bit-TA
- Extended
- biht-TAA
- IPA
- /bitˈtaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- her daughter
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
bit-TA
- clause
ke-i-MA bit-TA
- sentence
hin-NE KAL-ha-mo-SHEL a-LA-yikh yim-SHOL le-MOR ke-i-MA bit-TA
Exegesis
The comparative keimah bittah {כְּאִמָּה בִּתָּהּ | kə-ʾim-māh bit-tāh} ‘like mother, like her daughter’ employs parallelism to convey analogical inheritance.
Root and etymology
b-tbet–tav
“daughter”
In context — Ezekiel 16:44
Behold, everyone who uses proverbs against you will use a proverb, saying, “Like mother , like her daughter.”
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 16:44:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Ezekiel 16:44, so the Hebrew word בִּתָּֽהּ׃ (bitta) 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.16.44.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.16.44.W7.S1) and character.