Jeremiah 14:19:17Jer.14.19.W17TAB
מַרְפֵּ֖א
marpe
“healing”
- Transliteration
- mar-PE
- Extended
- mahr-PEE
- IPA
- /marˈpeː(ʔ)/
Meaning by language
- English
- healing
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
mar-PE
- phraseyour reading level
u-le-ET mar-PE
- clause
ka-VE le-sha-LOM ve-EN TOV u-le-ET mar-PE ve-hin-NE be-a-TA
- sentence
ha-MA-os MA-as-TA ET-ye-hu-DA im-be-tsi-YON ga-a-LA NAF-she-KHA ma-DU-a hi-KI-ta-NU ve-EN la-NU mar-PE ka-VE le-sha-LOM ve-EN TOV u-le-ET mar-PE ve-hin-NE be-a-TA
Exegesis
The existential sequence ve-ein lanu {וְאֵין לָנוּ | wəʾēn lānu} ‘and there is not for us’ frames marpe {מַרְפֵּא | mārpē} ‘healing’ as the expected result.
The coordinate u-le-et marpe {וּלְעֵת מַרְפֵּא | ūlʿēt mārpē} ‘and for a time of healing’ leads to the climactic vehinne be-atah {וְהִנֵּה בְעָתָה | wəhinēh bəʿātāh} ‘and behold, in terror’. The parallel rhetorical structure and repetition underscore the speaker’s despair, while the shift from anticipated restoration to terror produces dramatic reversal.
Root and etymology
Rootresh–pe–aleph
“to heal, restore”
In context — Jeremiah 14:19
Have You utterly rejected Judah, or has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You struck us so that there is no healing for us? We hoped for peace, but there is no good; and for a time of healing, but behold, terror!
About this coordinate
Jeremiah 14:19:17 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 17 of Jeremiah 14:19, so the Hebrew word מַרְפֵּ֖א (marpe) 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.14.19.W17, which extends further down to each syllable (Jer.14.19.W17.S1) and character.