Jeremiah 13:17:12Jer.13.17.W12TAB
דִּמְעָ֔ה
dima
“a tear”
- Transliteration
- dim-A
- Extended
- dihm-AAH
- IPA
- /dimˈʕaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- a tear
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
dim-A
- clause
ve-da-MO-a tid-MA ve-TE-rad e-NI dim-A KI nish-BA E-der Ye-ho-VAH
- sentence
ve-IM LO tish-me-A-u-ha be-mis-ta-RIM tiv-ke-NAF-shi mip-ne GE-va ve-da-MO-a tid-MA ve-TE-rad e-NI dim-A KI nish-BA E-der Ye-ho-VAH
Exegesis
A sequence of imperfect verbs—wə-dā-mō-ʿa {וְדָמֹעַ | wə-dā-mō-ʿa} ‘and it will drip,’ tidmaʿ {תִדְמַע | tid-maʿ} ‘it will weep,’ and wə-tērad {וְתֵרַד | wə-tē-rad} ‘and it will run down’—depicts escalating sorrow, culminating in ʿēnî dim-ʿāh {עֵינִי דִמְעָה | ʿē-nî dim-ʿā} ‘my eye tear.’
In context — Jeremiah 13:17
But if you will not listen to it, in secret places my soul shall weep because of pride; and my eye will weep and run down with tears, because the flock of the LORD is taken captive.
About this coordinate
Jeremiah 13:17:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Jeremiah 13:17, so the Hebrew word דִּמְעָ֔ה (dima) 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.13.17.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Jer.13.17.W12.S1) and character.