Job 14:13:3Job.14.13.W3TAB
בִּשְׁא֬וֹל
bisheol
“in Sheol”
- Transliteration
- bish-e-OL
- Extended
- bihsh-eh-OHL
- IPA
- /biʃ.ʔoːl/
Meaning by language
- English
- in Sheol
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Lamed | l as in law |
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The word
Word in context
- word
bish-e-OL
- phraseyour reading level
MI yit-TEN bish-e-OL tats-pe-NE-ni
- clause
MI yit-TEN bish-e-OL tats-pe-NE-ni tas-te-RE-ni ad-SHUV A-pe-kha
- sentence
MI yit-TEN bish-e-OL tats-pe-NE-ni tas-te-RE-ni ad-SHUV A-pe-kha ta-SHIT LI KHOK ve-tiz-ke-RE-ni
Exegesis
A sequence of second-person verbs addressed to God drives the petition forward: first the location is specified (bishol {בִּשְׁא֬וֹל | bišʾôl} ‘in Sheol’), then two near-synonymous Hiphil forms (tatsipneni {תַּצְפִּנֵ֗נִי | taṣpīnēnî} ‘cause me to be hidden’ and tastireni {תַּ֭סְתִּירֵנִי | tastîrēnî} ‘cause me to be concealed’) create poetic parallelism and intensification, portraying Sheol as a temporary shelter from divine distress.
Root and etymology
consonantsshin–aleph–lamed
“to ask”
In context — Job 14:13
Would that You would hide me in Sheol , that You would conceal me until Your anger turns back, that You would set for me a statute, and that You would remember me.
About this coordinate
Job 14:13:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Job 14:13, so the Hebrew word בִּשְׁא֬וֹל (bisheol) 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.14.13.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.14.13.W3.S1) and character.