Ezekiel 20:46:4Ezek.20.46.W4TABWLC Ezekiel 21:2
דֶּ֣רֶךְ
derekh
“toward the way of”
- Transliteration
- DE-rekh
- Extended
- DEH-rehkh
- IPA
- /ˈdɛ.rɛx/
Meaning by language
- English
- toward the way of
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable |
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The word
Word in context
- word
DE-rekh
- phraseyour reading level
DE-rekh tei-ma-NA
- clause
ben-A-dam SIM pa-NE-kha DE-rekh tei-ma-NA ve-ha-TEF el-da-ROM
- sentence
ben-A-dam SIM pa-NE-kha DE-rekh tei-ma-NA ve-ha-TEF el-da-ROM ve-hin-na-VE el-ya-AR ha-sa-DE NE-gev
Exegesis
The noun phrase derekh teimanah {דֶּרֶךְ תֵּימָנָה | de-reḵ tê-mā-nāh} ‘way of the south’ specifies geographical orientation.
Root and etymology
Rootd-r-ḵ
“way, road”
In context — Ezekiel 20:46
Son of man , set your face toward the way of the south, and utter a word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the Negev .
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 20:46:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Ezekiel 20:46, so the Hebrew word דֶּ֣רֶךְ (derekh) 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.20.46.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.20.46.W4.S1) and character.