Jeremiah 18:21:16Jer.18.21.W16TAB
מֻכֵּי־חֶ֖רֶב
mukkekherev
“struck ones of sword”
- Transliteration
- mu-kke-KHE-rev
- Extended
- muhk-keh-KHEH-rehv
- IPA
- /muk.keː.ˈħɛrɛv/
Meaning by language
- English
- struck ones of sword
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Qibbuts | short 'oo' as in food | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| 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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The word
Word in context
- word
mu-kke-KHE-rev
- clause
ba-khu-re-HEM mu-kke-KHE-rev ba-mmil-kha-MA
- sentence
la-KHEN TEN et-be-NE-hem la-ra-AV ve-hag-gi-REM al-ye-DE-khe-REV ve-tih-ye-NA ne-SHE-hem sha-kku-LOT ve-al-ma-NOT ve-an-she-HEM yih-yu ha-ru-GE MA-vet ba-khu-re-HEM mu-kke-KHE-rev ba-mmil-kha-MA
Exegesis
The final Hophal participle clause ba-ḥu-rê-hem mū-kê-ḥe-rev ba-mil-ḥā-māh {בַּחוּרֵיהֶם מֻכֵּי־חֶרֶב בַּמִּלְחָמָה} features the young men’s violent end in battle. The paratactic structure and cumulative imperatives intensify the pronouncement’s severity.
Root and etymology
ח־ר־ב
“sword, destruction”
In context — Jeremiah 18:21
Therefore, give their sons to the famine , and hand them over to the power of the sword; let their women be bereaved and become widows , and let their men be slain by death; let their young men be struck by the sword in battle.
About this coordinate
Jeremiah 18:21:16 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 16 of Jeremiah 18:21, so the Hebrew word מֻכֵּי־חֶ֖רֶב (mukkekherev) 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.18.21.W16, which extends further down to each syllable (Jer.18.21.W16.S1) and character.