Jeremiah 23:14:7Jer.23.14.W7TAB
בַּשֶּׁ֙קֶר֙
basheker
“in the lie”
- Transliteration
- ba-SHE-ker
- Extended
- bah-SHEH-kehr
- IPA
- /baˈʃːɛ.qɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- in the lie
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ba-SHE-ker
- phraseyour reading level
ve-ha-LO-kh ba-SHE-ker
- clause
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
- 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
The asyndetic parallelism in naʾof ve-halokh ba-sheqer {נָא֞וֹף וְהָלֹ֤ךְ בַּשֶּׁ֙קֶר֙ | nā-ʾōf wə-hā-lōḵ baš-še-qer} ‘adultery and walking in falsehood’ underscores the prophets’ paired transgressions.
Root and etymology
ש־ק־רs–q–r
“falsehood, deception”
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 23:14:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Jeremiah 23:14, so the Hebrew word בַּשֶּׁ֙קֶר֙ (basheker) 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.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Jer.23.14.W7.S1) and character.