Isaiah 16:7:3Isa.16.7.W3TAB

מוֹאָ֛ב

moav

Moab

Transliteration
mo-AV
Extended
moh-AV
IPA
/moːˈʔaːv/

Meaning by language

English
Moab

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Result
מוֹ + אָ֛ב
mo + av
moav

Alphabet Analysis

Memm as in mother
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Qametslong 'ah'
Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh

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Word in context

  1. word

    mo-AV

  2. phraseyour reading level

    ye-ye-LIL mo-AV

  3. clause

    la-KHEN ye-ye-LIL mo-AV le-mo-AV ku-LO ye-ye-LIL

  4. sentence

    la-KHEN ye-ye-LIL mo-AV le-mo-AV ku-LO ye-ye-LIL la-a-shi-SHE kir-kha-RE-set te-he-GU AKH-ne-kha-IM

Exegesis

The Piel imperfect yeyelil {יְיֵלִּיל | yə-yê-lîl} ‘will wail’ applies first to the proper noun moav {מוֹאָב | mō-’āḇ} and then to the pronominal suffix in kullo {כֻּלֹּה | kūl-lō}, forming a chiastic parallelism that intensifies communal lament.

In contextIsaiah 16:7

Therefore Moab will wail for Moab; all of it will wail. For the raisin-cakes of Kir-Hareseth you will groan, utterly stricken.

About this coordinate

Isaiah 16:7:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Isaiah 16:7, so the Hebrew word מוֹאָ֛ב (moav) 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 Isa.16.7.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Isa.16.7.W3.S1) and character.