Jeremiah 22:29:1Jer.22.29.W1TAB
אֶ֥רֶץ
erets
“O land”
- Transliteration
- ERETS
- Extended
- EH-rehts
- IPA
- /ˈʔɛrɛts/
Meaning by language
- English
- O land
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Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tsade Sofit | final form of Tsade — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
ERETS
- phraseyour reading level
ERETS E-rets
- clause
ERETS E-rets A-rets
- sentence
ERETS E-rets A-rets shim-E de-VAR-ye-ho-VAH
Exegesis
The prophet employs emphatic repetition of erets {אֶ֥רֶץ | ʾe-reṣ} ‘land’ three times in vocative parallelism to personify the territory and heighten the looming judgment.
Root and etymology
ʾ-r-ṣAleph–Resh–Tsade
“earth, land, territory”
In context — Jeremiah 22:29
O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD .
About this coordinate
Jeremiah 22:29:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Jeremiah 22:29, so the Hebrew word אֶ֥רֶץ (erets) 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.22.29.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Jer.22.29.W1.S1) and character.