Ezekiel 20:15:2Ezek.20.15.W2TAB
נָשָּׂ֧אתִי
nasati
“I lifted up or I raised”
- Transliteration
- na-SA-ti
- Extended
- naa-SAA-tih
- IPA
- /naːˈsːaː.ti/
Meaning by language
- English
- I lifted up or I raised
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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Word in context
- word
na-SA-ti
- phraseyour reading level
na-SA-ti YA-di
- clause
ve-GAM-a-NI na-SA-ti YA-di la-HEM ba-mid-BAR
- sentence
ve-GAM-a-NI na-SA-ti YA-di la-HEM ba-mid-BAR le-vil-TI ha-VI o-TAM el-ha-A-rets a-sher-na-TI za-VAT kha-LAV u-de-VASH tse-VI HI le-khol-ha-a-ra-TSOT
Exegesis
The emphatic pronoun ani {אֲנִי | ʾă-nî} ‘I’ identifies the LORD as subject, followed by the Qal perfect nasati {נָשָׂאתִי | nā-śāʾtî} ‘I lifted’, an idiom for swearing.
Root and etymology
Rootnun–shin–aleph
“to lift, bear”
In context — Ezekiel 20:15
And also I lifted My hand to them in the wilderness so that I would not bring them into the land that I gave, a land flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 20:15:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Ezekiel 20:15, so the Hebrew word נָשָּׂ֧אתִי (nasati) 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.20.15.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.20.15.W2.S1) and character.