Jeremiah 23:14:17Jer.23.14.W17TAB
וְיֹשְׁבֶ֖יהָ
veyosheveha
“and its inhabitants”
- Transliteration
- ve-yo-she-VE-ha
- Extended
- veh-yoh-sheh-VEE-hah
- IPA
- /və.joː.ʃə.veˈhɑː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and its inhabitants
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' |
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Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
ve-yo-she-VE-ha
- clause
ha-YU-li khu-LAM kis-DOM ve-yo-she-VE-ha ka-a-mo-RA
- sentence
u-vin-ve-e ye-ru-sha-LA-im ra-I-ti sha-a-ru-RA na-OF ve-ha-LO-kh ba-SHE-ker ve-khiz-ze-KU ye-DE me-re-IM le-vil-ti-SHA-vu ISH me-ra-a-TO ha-YU-li khu-LAM kis-DOM ve-yo-she-VE-ha ka-a-mo-RA
Exegesis
Finally, the comparative parallelism ki-Sedom ve-yoshveha ka-Amorah {כִּסְדֹם וְיֹשְׁבֶ֖יהָ כַּעֲמֹרָֽה | kis-ḏōm wə-yōš-ḇê-hā ka-ʿă-mō-rāh} ‘like Sodom and its inhabitants like Gomorrah’ delivers a condemning image of Jerusalem’s moral decay.
In context — Jeremiah 23:14
And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a dreadful thing: they commit adultery and walk in deceit, and they bolster evildoers so that no one turns from his evil . All of them are to me like Sodom , and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.
About this coordinate
Jeremiah 23:14:17 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 17 of Jeremiah 23:14, so the Hebrew word וְיֹשְׁבֶ֖יהָ (veyosheveha) 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.23.14.W17, which extends further down to each syllable (Jer.23.14.W17.S1) and character.