בַּחֲצִ֤י

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 בַּחֲצִ֤י

   ba-kha-TSI

   in the half of
2. phraseyour reading level🔊 בַּחֲצִ֤י ימו יָמָיו֙

   ba-kha-TSI ye-MO ya-MAV

   in the half of his days his days
3. clause🔊 בַּחֲצִ֤י ימו יָמָיו֙ יַעַזְבֶ֔נּוּ וּבְאַחֲרִית֖וֹ יִהְיֶ֥ה נָבָֽל׃

   ba-kha-TSI ye-MO ya-MAV ya-az-ve-NO u-ve-a-kha-ri-TO yih-ye na-VAL

   in the half of his days his days they will leave him and in his end he will be a fool
4. sentence🔊 קֹרֵ֤א דָגַר֙ וְלֹ֣א יָלָ֔ד עֹ֥שֶׂה עֹ֖שֶׁר וְלֹ֣א בְמִשְׁפָּ֑ט בַּחֲצִ֤י ימו יָמָיו֙ יַעַזְבֶ֔נּוּ וּבְאַחֲרִית֖וֹ יִהְיֶ֥ה נָבָֽל׃

   ko-RE da-GAR ve-LO ya-LAD O-se O-sher ve-LO ve-mish-PAT ba-kha-TSI ye-MO ya-MAV ya-az-ve-NO u-ve-a-kha-ri-TO yih-ye na-VAL

   calling or gathering a partridge and not it hatched or bore one making riches and not by justice or in judgment in the half of his days his days they will leave him and in his end he will be a fool

Exegesis

The temporal construct ba-chatzi yamav yaʿazvenu {בַּחֲצִ֤י יָמָיו֙ יַעַזְבֶ֔נּוּ | ba-ḥa-ṣî yā-māy-wô yā-ʿaz-ve-nû} ‘when half his days are gone they will leave him’ uses the prepositional construct and pronominal suffix to mark timing and the displaced object.