Ezekiel 17:20:3Ezek.17.20.W3TAB
רִשְׁתִּ֔י
rishti
“my net”
- Transliteration
- rish-TI
- Extended
- rihsh-TEE
- IPA
- /riʃˈtiː/
Meaning by language
- English
- my net
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| 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
rish-TI
- clause
u-fa-RAS-ti a-LAV rish-TI ve-nit-PAS bim-tsu-da-TI
- sentence
u-fa-RAS-ti a-LAV rish-TI ve-nit-PAS bim-tsu-da-TI va-ha-vi-o-TI-hu ba-ve-LA ve-nish-pat-TI i-TO SHAM ma-a-LO a-SHER MA-al-BI
Exegesis
The paired nouns rishti {רִשְׁתִּי | riš-tî} ‘my net’ and bimetzudati {בִּמְצֽוּדָתִי | bi-mə-ṣu-ḏā-tî} ‘in my snare’ form a legal metaphor of inescapable capture.
Root and etymology
Rootresh–shin–tav
“net, snare”
In context — Ezekiel 17:20
And I will spread my net over him, and he will be caught in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon, and I will enter into judgment with him there for his unfaithfulness .
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 17:20:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Ezekiel 17:20, so the Hebrew word רִשְׁתִּ֔י (rishti) 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.17.20.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.17.20.W3.S1) and character.