Isaiah 18:2:4Isa.18.2.W4TAB
וּבִכְלֵי־גֹמֶא֮
uvikhlegome
“and in vessels of papyrus”
- Transliteration
- u-vikh-LE-GO-me
- Extended
- oo-vihkh-LEE-GOH-meh
- IPA
- /uviχˈleː.ˈɣo.mɛʔ/
Meaning by language
- English
- and in vessels of papyrus
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Gimel | g as in good | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
u-vikh-LE-GO-me
- 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
It is followed by circumstantial phrases ba-yam {בַּיָּם | ba-yām} ‘by the sea’ and u-bikhlei-gome {וּבִכְלֵי־גֹמֶא | ū-viḵ-lê gō-mēʾ} ‘in papyrus vessels’, indicating means and location.
Root and etymology
g-m-ʾgimel–mem–aleph
“to absorb, to suck”
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 18:2:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Isaiah 18:2, so the Hebrew word וּבִכְלֵי־גֹמֶא֮ (uvikhlegome) 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.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Isa.18.2.W4.S1) and character.