Ezekiel 21:29:3Ezek.21.29.W3TABWLC Ezekiel 21:34
שָׁ֣וְא
shav
“vanity or falsehood”
- Transliteration
- SHAV
- Extended
- SHAA-veh
- IPA
- /ˈʃaːwəʔ/
Meaning by language
- English
- vanity or falsehood
Alphabet Analysis
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
SHAV
- phraseyour reading level
SHAV bik-SAM-LAKH
- clause
be-kha-za-ZOT LAKH SHAV bik-SAM-LAKH kha-ZAV
- sentence
be-kha-za-ZOT LAKH SHAV bik-SAM-LAKH kha-ZAV la-TET o-TAKH el-tsav-va-REI khal-le-LEI re-sha-IM a-SHER-BA yo-MAM be-ET a-VON KETS
Exegesis
The nouns shav {שָׁוְא | šāw} ‘vanity’ and kazav {כָּזָב | kā-zāḇ} ‘deceit’ form a chiastic parallel that intensifies the charge of false prophecy.
Root and etymology
שׁ־ו־אsh-w-ʾ
“emptiness, futility”
In context — Ezekiel 21:29
While they see vanity for you and practice deceitful divination for you, to place you on the necks of the slain of the wicked whose day has come when iniquity reaches its end.
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 21:29:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Ezekiel 21:29, so the Hebrew word שָׁ֣וְא (shav) 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.21.29.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.21.29.W3.S1) and character.