Genesis 21:23:2Gen.21.23.W2TAB

הִשָּׁ֨בְעָה

hishavea

“swear”

Transliteration: hi-SHA-ve-a
Extended: hih-SHAA-veh-ah
IPA: /hiʃ.ˈʃaː.və.ʕaː/

Meaning by language

English: swear

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result

הִ + שָּׁ֨ + בְ + עָה

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hi + sha + ve + a

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hishavea

Alphabet Analysis

	He	h as in house; silent at word end
	Hireq	'ee' as in machine
	Shin	shin with right dot; sin with left dot
	Qamets	long 'ah'
	Bet	b with dagesh; v without dagesh
	Sheva	vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
	Ayin	deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal
	Qamets	long 'ah'
	He	h as in house; silent at word end

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Word in context

word
hi-SHA-ve-a
phraseyour reading level
hi-SHA-ve-a LI ve-e-lo-HIM
clause
ve-at-TA hi-SHA-ve-a LI ve-e-lo-HIM HEN-na im-tish-KOR LI u-le-ni-NI u-le-nekh-DI
sentence
ve-at-TA hi-SHA-ve-a LI ve-e-lo-HIM HEN-na im-tish-KOR LI u-le-ni-NI u-le-nekh-DI ka-KHE-sed a-sher-a-SI-ti im-me-KHA ta-a-SE im-ma-DI ve-im-ha-A-rets a-sher-GAR-ta BAH

Exegesis

The Niphal imperative hiššāḇəʿāh {הִשָּׁבְעָה | hiš-šā-ḇə-ʿāh} ‘swear’ takes lī {לִּי | lī} ‘to me’ as indirect object and the prepositional phrase bəʾelohim {בֵאלֹהִים | bē-ʾĕ-lō-hîm} ‘by God’ as witness.

Root and etymology

sh-b-ʿshin–bet–ayin

“to swear, take an oath”

In context — Genesis 21:23

And now, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants , or with my descendants after them; but according to the kindness that I have shown you, you shall do with me and with the land in which you have sojourned.

About this coordinate

Genesis 21:23:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Genesis 21:23, so the Hebrew word הִשָּׁ֨בְעָה (hishavea) 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 Gen.21.23.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.21.23.W2.S1) and character.

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