Jeremiah 18:4:5Jer.18.4.W5TAB
עֹשֶׂ֛ה
ose
“is making or doing”
- Transliteration
- O-se
- Extended
- OH-seh
- IPA
- /ʕoːˈsɛ/
Meaning by language
- English
- is making or doing
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
O-se
- phraseyour reading level
a-SHER HU O-se
- clause
ve-nish-KHAT ha-ke-LI a-SHER HU O-se ba-KHO-mer be-YAD ha-yo-TSER
- sentence
ve-nish-KHAT ha-ke-LI a-SHER HU O-se ba-KHO-mer be-YAD ha-yo-TSER ve-SHAV va-ya-a-SE-HU ke-LI a-KHER ka-a-SHER ya-SHAR be-E-ne ha-yo-TSER la-a-SOT
Exegesis
The participle o-seh {עֹשֶׂה | ʿō-seh} ‘making’ indicates the potter’s continuous shaping activity.
Root and etymology
Rootayin–shin–he
“to do”
In context — Jeremiah 18:4
And the vessel he was making from the clay in the hand of the potter was ruined, so he reworked it and made it into another vessel as seemed right in the eyes of the potter to make.
About this coordinate
Jeremiah 18:4:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Jeremiah 18:4, so the Hebrew word עֹשֶׂ֛ה (ose) 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.18.4.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Jer.18.4.W5.S1) and character.