Jeremiah 16:2:3Jer.16.2.W3TAB
אִשָּׁ֑ה
isha
“a wife or a woman”
- Transliteration
- i-SHA
- Extended
- ih-SHAA
- IPA
- /ʔiʃˈʃaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- a wife or a woman
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
i-SHA
- clause
lo-ti-KAKH le-KHA i-SHA
- sentence
lo-ti-KAKH le-KHA i-SHA ve-lo-yih-YU le-KHA ba-NIM u-va-NOT ba-ma-KOM ha-ZE
Exegesis
The prepositional phrase lekhā {לְךָ | lə-ḵā} ‘for yourself’ personalizes the command toward marriage (ʾiššāh {אִשָּׁה | ʾiššāh} ‘wife’).
Root and etymology
ʾ-š-h
“woman, wife”
In context — Jeremiah 16:2
You shall not take for yourself a wife , and you shall not have sons or daughters in this place .
About this coordinate
Jeremiah 16:2:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Jeremiah 16:2, so the Hebrew word אִשָּׁ֑ה (isha) 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.16.2.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Jer.16.2.W3.S1) and character.