Hosea 13:8:1Hos.13.8.W1TAB
אֶפְגְּשֵׁם֙
efgeshem
“I will meet them”
- Transliteration
- ef-ge-SHEM
- Extended
- ehf-geh-SHEEM
- IPA
- /ʔɛf.ɡəˈʃeːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- I will meet them
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Gimel | g as in good | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
ef-ge-SHEM
- clause
ef-ge-SHEM ke-DOV shak-KUL ve-ek-RA se-GOR li-BAM
- sentence
ef-ge-SHEM ke-DOV shak-KUL ve-ek-RA se-GOR li-BAM ve-ok-LEM SHAM ke-la-VI kha-YAT ha-sa-DE te-vak-KEM
Exegesis
The verse is a single, escalating threat framed in first person verbal sequence: efgeshem {אֶפְגְּשֵׁם֙ | ʾefgešēm} ‘I will meet them’ sets direct confrontation, and the successive imperfects (veeqra {וְאֶקְרַ֖ע | wə-ʾeqraʿ} ‘and I will tear open’, veokhlem {וְאֹכְלֵ֥ם | wə-ʾokhlēm} ‘and I will devour them’) move from encounter to dismembering to consumption.
Root and etymology
פגשpeh–gimel–shin
“to encounter”
In context — Hosea 13:8
I will meet them like a bereaved bear, and I will tear open the covering of their heart; there I will devour them like a lion, and the beast of the field will rip them open.
About this coordinate
Hosea 13:8:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Hosea 13:8, so the Hebrew word אֶפְגְּשֵׁם֙ (efgeshem) 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.13.8.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Hos.13.8.W1.S1) and character.