Ezekiel 21:29:4Ezek.21.29.W4TABWLC Ezekiel 21:34
בִּקְסָֽם־לָ֖ךְ
biksamlakh
“while divining for you”
- Transliteration
- bik-SAM-LAKH
- Extended
- bihk-SAAM-LAAKH
- IPA
- /biqˈsaːm.laːx/
Meaning by language
- English
- while divining for you
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Samekh | s as in sit | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| 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
bik-SAM-LAKH
- 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 verse opens with two parallel prepositional constructions: bachazot {בָּחֲזוֹת | bā-ḥă-zôt} ‘in seeing’ and b’kesem {בְּקֶסֶם | bə-qé-sem} ‘by divination’, each governing the benefactive pronoun לָךְ {לָךְ | lāḵ} ‘for you’.
Root and etymology
Rootq-s-m
“divination”
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 21:29:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Ezekiel 21:29, so the Hebrew word בִּקְסָֽם־לָ֖ךְ (biksamlakh) 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.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.21.29.W4.S1) and character.