Jeremiah 20:14:9Jer.20.14.W9TAB
אַל־יְהִ֥י
alyehi
“let it not be”
- Transliteration
- al-ye-HI
- Extended
- ahl-yeh-HEE
- IPA
- /ʔal.jəˈhiː/
Meaning by language
- English
- let it not be
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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Word in context
- word
al-ye-HI
- phraseyour reading level
al-ye-HI ba-RUKH
- clause
YOM a-sher-ye-LA-dat-ni i-MI al-ye-HI ba-RUKH
- sentence
a-RUR ha-YOM a-SHER yu-LAD-ti BO YOM a-sher-ye-LA-dat-ni i-MI al-ye-HI ba-RUKH
Exegesis
The negative jussive al-yehi barukh {אַל־יְהִי בָּרוּךְ | ʾal-yə-hî bā-rūḵ} constitutes a strong plea, ‘let it not be blessed’. The chiastic structure juxtaposes ‘cursed’ and ‘blessed’ around the shared referent ‘day’, and the English version preserves this parallelism and emphatic word order.
In context — Jeremiah 20:14
Cursed be the day on which I was born; let not the day that my mother bore me be blessed.
About this coordinate
Jeremiah 20:14:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Jeremiah 20:14, so the Hebrew word אַל־יְהִ֥י (alyehi) 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.20.14.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Jer.20.14.W9.S1) and character.