Hosea 13:11:4Hos.13.11.W4TAB
וְאֶקַּ֖ח
veekakh
“and I took”
- Transliteration
- ve-e-KAKH
- Extended
- veh-eh-KAKH
- IPA
- /vəʔɛqˈqaħ/
Meaning by language
- English
- and I took
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Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch |
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Word in context
- word
ve-e-KAKH
- sentence
e-TEN-le-KHA ME-lekh be-a-PI ve-e-KAKH be-ev-ra-TI
Exegesis
The verbs etten-lekha {אֶ֣תְּן־לְךָ֕ | ʾet-ten-lə-ḵā} ‘I give you’ and ve-eqqakh {וְאֶקַּ֖ח | wə-ʾeqqaḥ} ‘and I take’ are coordinated with vav, producing a sharp contrast between bestowal and removal.
In context — Hosea 13:11
I gave you a king in My anger, and I took him away in My wrath.
About this coordinate
Hosea 13:11:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Hosea 13:11, so the Hebrew word וְאֶקַּ֖ח (veekakh) 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 Hos.13.11.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Hos.13.11.W4.S1) and character.