Genesis 40:21:8Gen.40.21.W8TAB
פַּרְעֹֽה׃
paroh
“Pharaoh”
- Transliteration
- par-OH
- Extended
- pahr-OH
- IPA
- /par.ˈʕoː/
Meaning by language
- English
- Pharaoh
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Alphabet Analysis
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
par-OH
- phraseyour reading level
al-KAF par-OH
- clause
va-yit-TEN ha-KOS al-KAF par-OH
- sentence
va-YA-shev et-SAR ham-mash-KIM al-mash-KE-hu va-yit-TEN ha-KOS al-KAF par-OH
Exegesis
In the second clause, vayyiten hakos ʿal kaf paroh {וַיִּתֵּן הַכּוֹס עַל־כַּף פַּרְעֹה}, the Qal wayyiqtol describes the concrete act of placing the cup on the king’s palm. The repeated preposition ʿal links abstract status to physical action, and the construct kaf paroh (“the palm of Pharaoh”) emphasizes personal proximity and trust in this royal ritual. In English, these forms are rendered as simple past verbs with prepositional phrases that preserve the causative nuance and hierarchical context.
Root and etymology
consonants resh-ayin-ayinresh–ayin–ayin
“bad, unpleasant, troublesome”
In context — Genesis 40:21
And he restored the chief of the cupbearers to his cupbearing, and he placed the cup upon Pharaoh’s hand .
About this coordinate
Genesis 40:21:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Genesis 40:21, so the Hebrew word פַּרְעֹֽה׃ (paroh) 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.40.21.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.40.21.W8.S1) and character.