Ezekiel 20:17:4Ezek.20.17.W4TAB
מִשְׁחֲתָ֑ם
mishkhatam
“from destroying them”
- Transliteration
- mish-kha-TAM
- Extended
- mihsh-khah-TAAM
- IPA
- /miʃ.ħăˈtaːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- from destroying them
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
mish-kha-TAM
- clause
va-ta-KHAS e-NI a-le-HEM mish-kha-TAM
- sentence
va-ta-KHAS e-NI a-le-HEM mish-kha-TAM ve-LO-a-SI-ti o-TAM ka-LA ba-mid-BAR
Root and etymology
ש־ח־תshin–chet–tav
“to destroy, corrupt”
In context — Ezekiel 20:17
But I had compassion—my eye spared them—from destroying them, and I did not make them perish in the wilderness .
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 20:17:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Ezekiel 20:17, so the Hebrew word מִשְׁחֲתָ֑ם (mishkhatam) 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.20.17.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.20.17.W4.S1) and character.