Jeremiah 16:10:12Jer.16.10.W12TAB
דִבֶּ֨ר
diber
“has spoken”
- Transliteration
- di-BER
- Extended
- dih-BEHR
- IPA
- /dibˈbɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- has spoken
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
di-BER
- phraseyour reading level
al-ME di-BER Ye-ho-VAH a-LE-nu
- clause
ve-am-RU e-LE-kha al-ME di-BER Ye-ho-VAH a-LE-nu ET KAL-ha-ra-A ha-ge-do-LA ha-ZOT u-ME a-vo-NE-nu u-ME kha-ta-TE-nu a-SHER kha-ta-NU la-Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HE-nu
- sentence
ve-ha-YA KI ta-GID la-AM ha-ZE ET KAL-ha-de-va-RIM ha-E-le ve-am-RU e-LE-kha al-ME di-BER Ye-ho-VAH a-LE-nu ET KAL-ha-ra-A ha-ge-do-LA ha-ZOT u-ME a-vo-NE-nu u-ME kha-ta-TE-nu a-SHER kha-ta-NU la-Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HE-nu
Exegesis
The verb ve-amru ʾe-le-kha {וְאָמְרוּ אֵלֶיךָ | wə-ʾāmə-rû ʾē-le-ḵā} ‘and they said to you’ introduces two parallel interrogative clauses: ʿal-meh dibber Yə-hō-Wāh ʿā-lê-nu {עַל־מֶה דִבֶּר יְהוָה עָלֵינוּ | ʿal-mê dib-bēr Yə-hō-Wāh ʿā-lê-nû} ‘upon what has the LORD spoken against us,’ and û-meh ʿă-vô-nê-nu û-meh ḥat-tā-ṯê-nu ă-šer ḥā-ṭā-nu {וּמֶה עֲוֹנֵנוּ וּמֶה חַטָּאתֵנוּ אֲשֶׁר חָטָאנוּ | û-meh ʿă-vô-nê-nû û-meh ḥat-tā-ṯê-nû ʾă-šer ḥā-ṭā-nu} ‘what is our iniquity and what is our sin that we have sinned.’ The use of avonenu and chattatenu creates a nuance between moral perversity and covenant violation.
Root and etymology
d-b-rdalet–bet–resh
“to speak”
In context — Jeremiah 16:10
And it shall be, when you declare all these words to this people, that they will say to you, “Why has the LORD declared all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity, and what is our sin which we have sinned against the LORD our God?”
About this coordinate
Jeremiah 16:10:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Jeremiah 16:10, so the Hebrew word דִבֶּ֨ר (diber) 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.16.10.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Jer.16.10.W12.S1) and character.