Jeremiah 23:35:5Jer.23.35.W5TAB

וְאִ֣ישׁ

veish

and a man or and each one

Transliteration
ve-ISH
Extended
veh-EESH
IPA
/vəˈʔiːʃ/

Meaning by language

English
and a man or and each one

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Result
וְ + אִ֣ישׁ
ve + ish
veish

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot

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Word in context

  1. word

    ve-ISH

  2. phraseyour reading level

    ve-ISH el-a-KHIv

  3. clause

    KO to-me-RU ISH al-re-E-hu ve-ISH el-a-KHIv

  4. sentence

    KO to-me-RU ISH al-re-E-hu ve-ISH el-a-KHIv me-a-NA Ye-ho-VAH u-ma-di-BER Ye-ho-VAH

Exegesis

The paired distributive constructions ish al-re'ehu {אִישׁ עַל־רֵעֵהוּ | ʾîš ʿal-rē-ʿê-hū} and ve-ish el-achiv {וְאִישׁ אֶל־אָחִיו | wə-ʾîš ʾel-ʾā-ḥîw} deploy each man plus prepositional phrase to emphasize universal application among peers.

In contextJeremiah 23:35

Thus you shall say, each man to his neighbor and each man to his brother, “What did the LORD answer? And what did the LORD speak?”

About this coordinate

Jeremiah 23:35:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Jeremiah 23:35, so the Hebrew word וְאִ֣ישׁ (veish) 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.23.35.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Jer.23.35.W5.S1) and character.