Ezekiel 19:5:4Ezek.19.5.W4TAB
אָבְדָ֖ה
avdeda
“it perished or was lost”
- Transliteration
- av-de-DA
- Extended
- aav-deh-DAA
- IPA
- /ʔaːv.dəˈðaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- it perished or was lost
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
av-de-DA
- clause
va-TE-RE KI no-kha-LA av-de-DA tik-va-TA
- sentence
va-TE-RE KI no-kha-LA av-de-DA tik-va-TA va-tik-KAKH e-KHAD mi-gu-RE-ha ke-FIR sa-MA-te-HU
Exegesis
The perfect verbs nochalah {נֽוֹחֲלָ֔ה | nō-ḥă-lāh} ‘she waited’ and avdah {אָבְדָ֖ה | ʾăḇəḏāh} ‘she was lost’ describe resultant states of waiting and ruin, with tikvatah {תִּקְוָתָ֑הּ | tiq-wā-ṯāh} ‘her hope’ in construct highlighting the object lost.
In context — Ezekiel 19:5
When she saw that she had waited in vain and her hope had perished, she took one of her cubs and made him a young lion .
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 19:5:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Ezekiel 19:5, so the Hebrew word אָבְדָ֖ה (avdeda) 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.19.5.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.19.5.W4.S1) and character.