סֹ֥בִּי

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 סֹ֥בִּי

   so-BI

   go around
2. phraseyour reading level🔊 סֹ֥בִּי עִ֖יר

   so-BI IR

   go around a city
3. clause🔊 קְחִ֥י כִנּ֛וֹר סֹ֥בִּי עִ֖יר זוֹנָ֣ה נִשְׁכָּחָ֑ה

   ke-KHI khi-NOR so-BI IR zo-NA ni-she-kha-KHA

   take a harp or lyre go around a city a prostitute forgotten
4. sentence🔊 קְחִ֥י כִנּ֛וֹר סֹ֥בִּי עִ֖יר זוֹנָ֣ה נִשְׁכָּחָ֑ה הֵיטִ֤יבִי נַגֵּן֙ הַרְבִּי־שִׁ֔יר לְמַ֖עַן תִּזָּכֵֽרִי׃

   ke-KHI khi-NOR so-BI IR zo-NA ni-she-kha-KHA he-ti-VI na-GEN har-BI-SHIR le-MA-an tiz-za-KHE-ri

   take a harp or lyre go around a city a prostitute forgotten make good or do well playing music multiply song or sing much so that or in order that you may be remembered

Exegesis

This is followed by the sequence of imperatives sovi {סֹבִּי | sôbbî} ‘go around,’ heytivi {הֵיטִיבִי | hêṭîḇî} ‘play well,’ the Piel infinitive naggen {נַגֵּן | naggēn} ‘play music,’ and the compound harbi-shir {הַרְבִּי־שִׁיר | harbî-šîr} ‘make many songs,’ which heightens intensity through the maqqef linkage.