Jeremiah 15:10:7Jer.15.10.W7TAB

וְאִ֥ישׁ

veish

and a man

Transliteration
ve-ISH
Extended
veh-EESH
IPA
/vəˈʔiːʃ/

Meaning by language

English
and a man

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Result
וְ + אִ֥ישׁ
ve + ish
veish

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot

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Word in context

  1. word

    ve-ISH

  2. phraseyour reading level

    ve-ISH ma-DON

  3. clause

    OI-LI IM-MI KI ye-LID-TI-ni ISH RIV ve-ISH ma-DON le-KHOL-ha-A-rets

  4. sentence

    OI-LI IM-MI KI ye-LID-TI-ni ISH RIV ve-ISH ma-DON le-KHOL-ha-A-rets LO-na-SHI-ti ve-LO-na-SHU-VI KU-lo me-kal-le-LA-vo-ni

Exegesis

A paired coordinate structure of ish riv {אִישׁ רִיב | ʾîš rîḇ} 'man of strife' and ve-ish madon {וְאִישׁ מָדוֹן | wə-ʾîš mā·ḏôn} 'and man of contention' intensifies the identity.

In contextJeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to all the land! I have not lent, nor have they lent to me, yet all of them curse me .

About this coordinate

Jeremiah 15:10:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Jeremiah 15:10, so the Hebrew word וְאִ֥ישׁ (veish) 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.15.10.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Jer.15.10.W7.S1) and character.