Ezekiel 18:16:3Ezek.18.16.W3TAB
הוֹנָ֔ה
hona
“he oppressed or wronged”
- Transliteration
- ho-NA
- Extended
- hoh-NAA
- IPA
- /hoːˈnaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- he oppressed or wronged
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ho-NA
- phraseyour reading level
LO ho-NA
- clause
ve-ISH LO ho-NA kha-VOL LO kha-VAL u-ge-ZE-la LO ga-ZAL
- sentence
ve-ISH LO ho-NA kha-VOL LO kha-VAL u-ge-ZE-la LO ga-ZAL lakh-MO le-ra-EV na-TAN ve-e-ROM ki-SA-va-GED
Exegesis
The negation particle lo {לֹא | lō}: ‘not’ recurs before each verb honah {הוֹנָה | hō-nāh}: ‘oppress’, chaval {חָבָל | ḥā-ḇāl}: ‘take a pledge’, and gazal {גָזָל | gā-zāl}: ‘rob’, forming a structured series of prohibitions.
Root and etymology
h-n-hH N H
“to oppress, mistreat”
In context — Ezekiel 18:16
He has not oppressed any man, has not taken a pledge , nor committed robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry and covered the naked with a garment.
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 18:16:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Ezekiel 18:16, so the Hebrew word הוֹנָ֔ה (hona) 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.18.16.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.18.16.W3.S1) and character.