Ezekiel 21:7:14Ezek.21.7.W14TABWLC Ezekiel 21:12

וְכִהֲתָ֣ה

vekhihata

“and will grow faint”

Transliteration: ve-khi-ha-TA
Extended: veh-khih-hah-TAA
IPA: /wəxiħăˈtaː/

Meaning by language

English: and will grow faint

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Result

וְ + כִ + הֲ + תָ֣ה

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ve + khi + ha + ta

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vekhihata

Alphabet Analysis

	Vav	v as in vine; marks long ō / ū
	Sheva	vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
	Kaf	k with dagesh; kh without
	Hireq	'ee' as in machine
	He	h as in house; silent at word end
	Hateph Patach	reduced 'ah'
	Tav	t as in top
	Qamets	long 'ah'
	He	h as in house; silent at word end

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Word in context

word
ve-khi-ha-TA
phraseyour reading level
ve-khi-ha-TA kol-RU-akh ve-khol-bir-KA-yim
clause
ve-a-MAR-ta el-she-mu-A ki-va-A ve-na-MES kol-LEV ve-ra-FU kol-ya-DA-yim ve-khi-ha-TA kol-RU-akh ve-khol-bir-KA-yim te-LAKH-na MA-yim hi-NE va-A ve-nih-ya-TA ne-UM a-do-NAI ye-ho-VI
sentence
ve-ha-YA ki-yo-me-RU e-LE-kha al-MA a-TA ne-e-NAKH ve-a-MAR-ta el-she-mu-A ki-va-A ve-na-MES kol-LEV ve-ra-FU kol-ya-DA-yim ve-khi-ha-TA kol-RU-akh ve-khol-bir-KA-yim te-LAKH-na MA-yim hi-NE va-A ve-nih-ya-TA ne-UM a-do-NAI ye-ho-VI

Exegesis

Four parallel result clauses—wə-nāmās kol-lēḇ {וְנָמַס כָּל־לֵב | wə-nāmās kol-lēḇ} ‘every heart will melt’, wə-rāp̄û kol-yiddayîm {וְרָפוּ כָּל־יַדַּיִם | wə-rāp̄û kol-yiddayîm} ‘all hands will become feeble’, wə-hāḵāṯā kol-rûaḥ {וְכָהֲתָה כָּל־רוּחַ | wə-hāḵāṯā kol-rûaḥ} ‘every spirit will faint’, and wə-kol-birrăqāyîm tēlakkənāh māyim {וְכָל־בִּרְכַּיִם תֵּלַכְנָה מַיִם | wə-kol-birrăqāyîm tēlakkənāh māyim} ‘all knees will go like water’—employ syntactic parallelism to depict total collapse.

In context — Ezekiel 21:7

And when they say to you, “Why are you groaning?” you shall answer, “Because of the report, for it is drawing near: every heart will dissolve, all hands will hang limp; every spirit will sink, and all knees will flow down like water. Look, it is coming, and it will surely take place,” declares the Lord GOD .

About this coordinate

Ezekiel 21:7:14 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 14 of Ezekiel 21:7, so the Hebrew word וְכִהֲתָ֣ה (vekhihata) 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.21.7.W14, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.21.7.W14.S1) and character.

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