Job 14:1:4Job.14.1.W4TAB
קְצַ֥ר
ketsar
“short”
- Transliteration
- ke-TSAR
- Extended
- keh-TSAR
- IPA
- /qəˈtsar/
Meaning by language
- English
- short
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ke-TSAR
- phraseyour reading level
ke-TSAR ya-MIM
- clause
ke-TSAR ya-MIM u-se-VA-RO-gez
- sentence
a-DAM ye-LUD i-SHA ke-TSAR ya-MIM u-se-VA-RO-gez
Exegesis
The predicate unfolds in two parallel descriptive phrases: qetsar yamim {קְצַר יָמִים | qə-ṣar yā-mîm} ‘short of days’ uses a construct chain to quantify life as brief, while useva-rogez {וּשְׂבַע־רֹגֶז | ûśə-ḇaʿ rō-ḡeẓ} ‘and full of turmoil’ mirrors the structure with another construct relationship, portraying trouble as abundant. The coordination (vav) links brevity and distress as paired realities, creating balanced poetic parallelism that compresses an entire theology of mortality into two matched clauses.
In context — Job 14:1
Man born of woman is short of days and full of turmoil .
About this coordinate
Job 14:1:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Job 14:1, so the Hebrew word קְצַ֥ר (ketsar) 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.14.1.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.14.1.W4.S1) and character.