Jeremiah 13:16:11Jer.13.16.W11TAB

נָ֑שֶׁף

nashef

twilight

Transliteration
NA-shef
Extended
NAA-shehf
IPA
/ˈnaːʃɛf/

Meaning by language

English
twilight

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Result
נָ֑ + שֶׁף
na + shef
nashef

Alphabet Analysis

Nunn as in new
Qametslong 'ah'
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Segholshort 'eh' as in met
Pe Sofitfinal form of Pe — at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    NA-shef

  2. phraseyour reading level

    al-ha-RE NA-shef

  3. clause

    te-NU la-Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HE-khem ka-VOD be-TE-rem ya-kh-SHIKH u-ve-TE-rem yit-na-ge-FU rag-le-KHEM al-ha-RE NA-shef

  4. sentence

    te-NU la-Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HE-khem ka-VOD be-TE-rem ya-kh-SHIKH u-ve-TE-rem yit-na-ge-FU rag-le-KHEM al-ha-RE NA-shef ve-ki-vi-TEM le-OR ve-sa-MAH le-tsal-MA-vet ya-SHIT ve-SHIT la-a-ra-FEL

Exegesis

The two temporal clauses—bə-TE-rem yakh-SHIKH {בְּטֶרֶם יַחְשִׁיךְ | bə-te-rem yaḥ-šîḵ} “before He brings darkness” and ū-bə-TE-rem yit-nag-GE-fu rag-lê-khem ʿal ha-rê nā-šef {וּבְטֶרֶם יִתְנַגְּפוּ רַגְלֵיכֶם עַל־הָרֵי נָשֶׁף | ū-bə-te-rem yit-nag-gə-fū rag-lê-khem ʿal ha-rê nā-šef} “and before your feet stumble on the mountains of twilight”—establish urgency as divine action and human peril converge.

Root and etymology

n-š-pnun–shin–pe

twilight

In contextJeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, and before your feet stumble on the mountains of twilight ; while you hope for light, He makes it into the shadow of death and sets it into thick darkness.

About this coordinate

Jeremiah 13:16:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of Jeremiah 13:16, so the Hebrew word נָ֑שֶׁף (nashef) 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 Jer.13.16.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (Jer.13.16.W11.S1) and character.