Ezekiel 16:9:7Ezek.16.9.W7TAB
בַּשָּֽׁמֶן׃
bashamen
“with the oil”
- Transliteration
- ba-sha-MEN
- Extended
- bah-shaa-MEHN
- IPA
- /baʃ.ʃaːˈmɛn/
Meaning by language
- English
- with the oil
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| 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
ba-sha-MEN
- clause
va-a-su-KHEKH ba-sha-MEN
- sentence
va-er-kha-TSEKH ba-ma-YIM va-esh-TOF da-ma-YIKH me-a-la-YIKH va-a-su-KHEKH ba-sha-MEN
Exegesis
The final verb va'asukhekh {וָאֲסֻכֵךְ | wā-ʾă-su-ḵēḵ} ‘I anointed you’ with bashemen {בַּשָּׁמֶן | ba-šā-men} ‘with oil’ conveys consecration and healing. Hebrew word order foregrounds divine agency with each clause, while the progression from water to blood to oil underscores a movement from cleansing to restoration and sanctification. The English rendering preserves the chronological sequence and clarifies relational expressions through idiomatic prepositional phrases and parallel structure.
Root and etymology
Rootshin–mem–nun
“oil, fat”
In context — Ezekiel 16:9
I washed you with water, rinsed your blood from upon you, and anointed you with oil.
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 16:9:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Ezekiel 16:9, so the Hebrew word בַּשָּֽׁמֶן׃ (bashamen) 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.16.9.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.16.9.W7.S1) and character.