Job 13:14:5Job.13.14.W5TAB
וְ֝נַפְשִׁ֗י
venafshi
“and my life or my soul”
- Transliteration
- ve-naf-SHI
- Extended
- veh-nahf-SHEE
- IPA
- /vənafˈʃiː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and my life or my soul
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 | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-naf-SHI
- clause
ve-naf-SHI a-SIM be-kha-PI
- sentence
al-MA e-SA ve-sa-RI ve-shi-NAI ve-naf-SHI a-SIM be-kha-PI
Exegesis
The second clause is coordinated with vav and parallels the first: venafshi {וְנַפְשִׁי | wə-naf-šî} ‘and my life’ fronts the object, while asim {אָשִׂים | ʾā-śîm} ‘I place’ and bekappi {בְּכַפִּי | bə-kap-pî} ‘in my palm’ express deliberate self-endangerment. The paired clauses form poetic parallelism: “flesh/teeth” aligns with “life/palm,” intensifying the sense of risking one’s whole self; English keeps the rhetorical question while rendering the Hebrew imagery in a comprehensible idiom.
Root and etymology
consonantsNun–Pe–Shin
“breath”
In context — Job 13:14
Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my palm?
About this coordinate
Job 13:14:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Job 13:14, so the Hebrew word וְ֝נַפְשִׁ֗י (venafshi) 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 Job.13.14.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.13.14.W5.S1) and character.