Isaiah 23:8:7Isa.23.8.W7TAB
סֹחֲרֶ֙יה֙
sokhareha
“her merchants”
- Transliteration
- so-kha-re-HA
- Extended
- soh-khah-reh-HAH
- IPA
- /soː.ħă.rɛˈhaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- her merchants
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Samekh | s as in sit | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
so-kha-re-HA
- phraseyour reading level
a-SHER so-kha-re-HA
- clause
a-SHER so-kha-re-HA sa-RIM kin-a-ne-HA nikh-va-DE-a-RETS
- sentence
MI ya-ATS ZOT al-TSOR ha-ma-a-ti-RA a-SHER so-kha-re-HA sa-RIM kin-a-ne-HA nikh-va-DE-a-RETS
Exegesis
The parallel construct chains sochareha {סֹחֲרֶיהָ | sô-ḥa-rê-hā} ‘her merchants’ + sarim {שָׂרִים | śā-rîm} ‘princes’ and kinaaneha {כִּנְעָנֶיהָ | kinn-‘ā-nê-hā} ‘her traders’ + nichbadei-aretz {נִכְבַדֵּי־אָרֶץ | nîḵ-ba-ḏê-’ā-reṣ} ‘honored of the earth’ parallel economic status with nobility, emphasizing Tyre’s commercial prestige. The repetition of relative clauses intensifies each attribute, and this Hebrew parallelism is reflected in balanced English phrasing to preserve rhetorical force.
Root and etymology
s-ḥ-rSamekh–Chet–Resh
“to trade, to go around”
In context — Isaiah 23:8
Who has given this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honored of the earth?
About this coordinate
Isaiah 23:8:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Isaiah 23:8, so the Hebrew word סֹחֲרֶ֙יה֙ (sokhareha) 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.23.8.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Isa.23.8.W7.S1) and character.