Ezekiel 20:6:14Ezek.20.6.W14TAB

וּדְבַ֔שׁ

udevash

and honey

Transliteration
u-de-VASH
Extended
oo-deh-VAAHSH
IPA
/uːdəˈvaːʃ/

Meaning by language

English
and honey

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
וּ + דְ + בַ֔שׁ
u + de + vash
udevash

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Daletd as in door
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot

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Word in context

  1. word

    u-de-VASH

  2. clause

    el-E-rets a-sher-TAR-ti la-HEM za-VAT kha-LAV u-de-VASH tse-VI HI le-khol-ha-a-ra-TSOT

  3. sentence

    ba-YOM ha-HU na-SA-ti ya-DI la-HEM le-ho-tsi-AM me-E-rets mits-ra-YIM el-E-rets a-sher-TAR-ti la-HEM za-VAT kha-LAV u-de-VASH tse-VI HI le-khol-ha-a-ra-TSOT

Exegesis

The participle zavat {זָבַת | zā-vaṯ} ‘flowing’ forms a construct chain with chalav udevash {חָלָב וּדְבַשׁ | ḥā-lāv û-ḏə-vāš} ‘milk and honey’, an idiom of fertility and abundance.

Root and etymology

Rootdalet–bet–shin

honey

In contextEzekiel 20:6

On that day I lifted My hand to them to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had sought out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, which is the beauty of all the lands.

About this coordinate

Ezekiel 20:6:14 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 14 of Ezekiel 20:6, so the Hebrew word וּדְבַ֔שׁ (udevash) 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.20.6.W14, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.20.6.W14.S1) and character.