Ezekiel 21:27:2Ezek.21.27.W2TABWLC Ezekiel 21:32
עַוָּ֖ה
ava
“a ruin or overthrow”
- Transliteration
- A-VA
- Extended
- ah-VAA
- IPA
- /ʕavˈvaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- a ruin or overthrow
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
A-VA
- phraseyour reading level
A-VA A-VA
- clause
A-VA A-VA A-VA a-si-MEN-na
- sentence
A-VA A-VA A-VA a-si-MEN-na gam-ZOT LO ha-YA ad-BO a-SHER-lo ha-mish-PAT u-ne-ta-TIV
Exegesis
The verse’s tripled repetition of avvah {עַוָּה | ʿavvāh} intensifies the announcement of catastrophe through parallelism.
Root and etymology
ʿ-w-hayin–waw–heh
“to bend, twist, overturn”
In context — Ezekiel 21:27
Overturning, overturning, overturning—I will make it so; this also will not exist until the one to whom the judgment belongs comes, and I will give it to him.
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 21:27:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Ezekiel 21:27, so the Hebrew word עַוָּ֖ה (ava) 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.21.27.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.21.27.W2.S1) and character.