Ezekiel 17:9:6Ezek.17.9.W6TAB

תִּצְלָ֑ח

titslakh

will it succeed

Transliteration
tits-LAKH
Extended
tihts-LAAKH
IPA
/titsˈlaːħ/

Meaning by language

English
will it succeed

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
תִּצְ + לָ֑ח
tits + lakh
titslakh

Alphabet Analysis

Tavt as in top
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Tsadets as in cats
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Lamedl as in law
Qametslong 'ah'
Chetch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch

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Word in context

  1. word

    tits-LAKH

  2. clause

    e-MOR KO a-MAR a-do-NAI ye-ho-VAH tits-LAKH

  3. sentence

    e-MOR KO a-MAR a-do-NAI ye-ho-VAH tits-LAKH ha-LO et-sha-ra-SHE-ha ye-nat-TEK ve-et-pir-YA ye-ko-SES ve-ya-VESH kal-tar-PE tsim-KHA ti-VASH ve-LO-viz-RO-a ge-do-LA u-ve-am-RAV le-mas-OT o-TA mish-sha-ra-SHE-ha

Exegesis

The verb titzlach {תִּצְלָח | tiṣ-lā-ḥ} ‘it will thrive’ followed by the interrogative halo {הֲלוֹא | ha-lōʾ} ‘is it not?’ forms a rhetorical question pointing to inevitable failure.

Root and etymology

צ־ל־ח

to thrive, succeed

In contextEzekiel 17:9

Say, “Thus says the Lord God : Will it thrive ? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit so that all the leaves of its growth wither? It will wither, and by no strong arm or by many people will it be lifted up from its roots.”

About this coordinate

Ezekiel 17:9:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Ezekiel 17:9, so the Hebrew word תִּצְלָ֑ח (titslakh) 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.17.9.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.17.9.W6.S1) and character.