Ezekiel 16:47:9Ezek.16.47.W9TAB
וַתַּשְׁחִ֥תִי
vatashkhiti
“and you acted corruptly”
- Transliteration
- va-tash-khi-TI
- Extended
- vah-tahsh-khih-TEE
- IPA
- /vat.taʃˈħiːtiː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and you acted corruptly
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
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 | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-tash-khi-TI
- phraseyour reading level
va-tash-khi-TI me-HEN
- clause
kim-E-at KAT va-tash-khi-TI me-HEN be-KHOL-de-ra-KHA-yikh
- sentence
ve-LO be-dar-KHEI-hen ha-LAKHT u-ve-to-a-vo-TEI-hen a-si-TI a-SIT kim-E-at KAT va-tash-khi-TI me-HEN be-KHOL-de-ra-KHA-yikh
Exegesis
The Hiphil form vattashchiti {וַתַּשְׁחִתִי | wa-ṯaš-ḥîṯî} indicates causative self-corruption, intensified by mehen {מֵהֵן | mē-hên} ‘more than them’ and completed with bekhol-derakhayikh {בְּכָל־דְּרָכָיִךְ | bə-ḵōl-ḏə-rā-ḵā-yikh} ‘in all your ways,’ underscoring the totality of moral decline.
Root and etymology
sh-ḥ-tshin–chet–tav
“to destroy, corrupt”
In context — Ezekiel 16:47
And you did not walk in their ways, nor did you do according to their abominations ; but as if that were a very small thing, you corrupted yourself more than they in all your ways.
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 16:47:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Ezekiel 16:47, so the Hebrew word וַתַּשְׁחִ֥תִי (vatashkhiti) 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.16.47.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.16.47.W9.S1) and character.