Ezekiel 22:12:8Ezek.22.12.W8TAB
וַתְּבַצְּעִ֤י
vattevatsi
“and you made gain”
- Transliteration
- vat-te-va-TSI
- Extended
- vaht-teh-vah-TSEH-ee
- IPA
- /vat.təvaˈtsəʕiː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and you made gain
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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Word in context
- word
vat-te-va-TSI
- phraseyour reading level
vat-te-va-TSI re-A-yikh
- clause
NE-shekh ve-tar-BIT la-ka-KHAT vat-te-va-TSI re-A-yikh ba-O-shek ve-O-ti sha-KHAKHT ne-UM a-do-NAI ye-ho-VI
- sentence
SHO-khad la-khu-VAKH le-MA-an she-FOKH-DAM NE-shekh ve-tar-BIT la-ka-KHAT vat-te-va-TSI re-A-yikh ba-O-shek ve-O-ti sha-KHAKHT ne-UM a-do-NAI ye-ho-VI
Exegesis
The nominal phrase neshekh ve-tarbit {נֶ֧שֶׁךְ וְתַרְבִּ֣ית | ne-šeḵ wə-tar-bît} ‘interest and increase’ functions as the object of laqachat {לָקַ֗חַתְּ | lā-qa-ḥat} ‘you have taken’, followed by vatevatzi {וַתְּבַצְּעִי | wa-tə-ḇat-tsiʿ} ‘and you have gained’ with the instrumental ba-osheq {בַּעֹשֶׁק | ba-ʿō-šeq} ‘through oppression’.
Root and etymology
ב־צ־ע
“gain by violence”
In context — Ezekiel 22:12
Among you they accept bribes for bloodshed; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; and you have forgotten Me, declares the Lord GOD.
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 22:12:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Ezekiel 22:12, so the Hebrew word וַתְּבַצְּעִ֤י (vattevatsi) 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.22.12.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.22.12.W8.S1) and character.