Job 13:19:5Job.13.19.W5TAB
אַחֲרִ֣ישׁ
akharish
“I would be silent”
- Transliteration
- a-kha-RISH
- Extended
- ah-khah-REESH
- IPA
- /ʔaħăˈriːʃ/
Meaning by language
- English
- I would be silent
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot |
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The word
Word in context
- word
a-kha-RISH
- phraseyour reading level
a-kha-RISH ve-eg-VA
- clause
ki-a-TA a-kha-RISH ve-eg-VA
- sentence
mi-HU ya-RIV im-MA-di ki-a-TA a-kha-RISH ve-eg-VA
Exegesis
wəʾegwaʿ {אַחֲרִישׁ וְאֶגְוָע | ʾaḥărîš wəʾegwaʿ} ‘I will be silent … and I will expire’ is linked by simple coordination, creating a grim, compressed progression from silence to death. English keeps the two-part movement (challenge question → consequence) while allowing the implicit conditional sense to surface in smooth idiom.
Root and etymology
consonantschet–resh–shin
“to be silent”
In context — Job 13:19
Who is he who will contend with me? For now, I will be silent and I will expire.
About this coordinate
Job 13:19:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Job 13:19, so the Hebrew word אַחֲרִ֣ישׁ (akharish) 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.13.19.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.13.19.W5.S1) and character.