Jeremiah 15:3:6Jer.15.3.W6TAB
אֶת־הַחֶ֣רֶב
ethakherev
“the sword”
- Transliteration
- et-ha-KHE-rev
- Extended
- eht-hah-KHEH-rehv
- IPA
- /ʔɛt.haˈħɛrɛv/
Meaning by language
- English
- the sword
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh |
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Word in context
- word
et-ha-KHE-rev
- phraseyour reading level
et-ha-KHE-rev la-ha-ROG
- clause
u-fa-KAD-ti a-le-HEM ar-BA mish-pe-KHO-t ne-UM-ye-ho-VAH et-ha-KHE-rev la-ha-ROG ve-et-ha-kla-VIM lis-KHOV
- sentence
u-fa-KAD-ti a-le-HEM ar-BA mish-pe-KHO-t ne-UM-ye-ho-VAH et-ha-KHE-rev la-ha-ROG ve-et-ha-kla-VIM lis-KHOV ve-et-OF ha-sha-MA-yim ve-et-be-he-MAT ha-A-rets le-e-KHOL u-le-hash-KHIT
Exegesis
A series of direct-object markers et {אֶת־ | ʾet} precedes each instrument, followed by infinitive constructs laharog {לַֽהֲרֹ֔ג | la-ha-rōg} ‘to kill,’ lischov {לִסְחֹב | li-sḥōv} ‘to drag away,’ le-ekhol {לֶאֱכֹ֥ל | le-ʾe-ḵōl} ‘to eat,’ and ule-hashchit {וּלְהַשְׁחִֽית | u-le-haš-ḥîṯ} ‘to destroy.’ Construct chains bird-of-the-heavens and beast-of-the-earth broaden the scope of the agents. The Hebrew word order places instruments before actions for rhetorical emphasis, preserved in the English enumeration.
Root and etymology
Rootch-r-b
“sword, dryness, desolation”
In context — Jeremiah 15:3
And I will appoint over them four kinds , declares the LORD : the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth to eat and to destroy.
About this coordinate
Jeremiah 15:3:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Jeremiah 15:3, so the Hebrew word אֶת־הַחֶ֣רֶב (ethakherev) 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.15.3.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Jer.15.3.W6.S1) and character.