Isaiah 18:2:10Isa.18.2.W10TAB
מְמֻשָּׁ֣ךְ
memushakh
“drawn out or tall”
- Transliteration
- me-mu-SHAKH
- Extended
- meh-muh-SHAAKH
- IPA
- /məmuʃˈʃaːx/
Meaning by language
- English
- drawn out or tall
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Qibbuts | short 'oo' as in food | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable |
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The word
Word in context
- word
me-mu-SHAKH
- phraseyour reading level
me-mu-SHAKH u-mo-RAT
- clause
ha-sho-LE-akh ba-YAM tsi-RIM u-vikh-LE-GO-me al-pe-NE-ma-YIM le-KHU mal-a-KHIM ka-LIM el-GOY me-mu-SHAKH u-mo-RAT el-AM no-RA min-HU va-ha-le-A
- sentence
ha-sho-LE-akh ba-YAM tsi-RIM u-vikh-LE-GO-me al-pe-NE-ma-YIM le-KHU mal-a-KHIM ka-LIM el-GOY me-mu-SHAKH u-mo-RAT el-AM no-RA min-HU va-ha-le-A GOY kav-KAV u-me-vu-SA a-SHER-ba-ze-U ne-ha-RIM ar-TSO
Exegesis
Participial modifiers memushakh {מְמֻשָּׁךְ | mə-muš-šā-ḥ} ‘spread thinly’ and u-morat {וּמוֹרָט | ū-mō-rāṭ} ‘peeled’ describe the target nation, followed by the adjective nora {נוֹרָא | nôr-āʾ} ‘awesome’.
Root and etymology
m-š-ḥmem–shin–chet
“to draw out, spread thin”
In context — Isaiah 18:2
Which sends envoys by sea and in vessels of papyrus upon the surface of the waters, saying, “Go, swift messengers, to a nation drawn out and peeled, to a people awesome from its beginning onwards, a nation measured line by line and trampled, whose land the rivers divide.”
About this coordinate
Isaiah 18:2:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of Isaiah 18:2, so the Hebrew word מְמֻשָּׁ֣ךְ (memushakh) 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.18.2.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (Isa.18.2.W10.S1) and character.