Job 14:22:1Job.14.22.W1TAB

אַךְ־בְּ֭שָׂרוֹ

akhbesaro

surely only his flesh or his body

Transliteration
AKH-be-sa-RO
Extended
AHKH-beh-saa-ROH
IPA
/ʔax.bəsaːˈroː/

Meaning by language

English
surely only his flesh or his body

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
אַךְ + בְּ֭ + שָׂ + רוֹ
akh + be + sa + ro
akhbesaro

Alphabet Analysis

Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Kaf Sofitfinal form of Kaf — at word end
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Qametslong 'ah'
Reshr guttural, like the French r
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Holemlong 'oh' as in go

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Word in context

  1. word

    AKH-be-sa-RO

  2. clause

    AKH-be-sa-RO a-LAV yikh-AV

  3. sentence

    AKH-be-sa-RO a-LAV yikh-AV ve-NAF-sho a-LAV te-e-VAL

Exegesis

The restrictive particle akh-besaro {אַךְ-בְּ֭שָׂרוֹ | ʾaḵ-bəśārô} ‘only in his flesh’ narrows focus to bodily affliction, immediately followed by the locative alav {עָלָיו | ʿālāyw} ‘upon him’ and the imperfect yikhav {יִכְאָב | yiḵʾāḇ} ‘he is in pain’, which conveys continuous suffering.

Root and etymology

b-s-rbet–sin–resh

flesh, body

In contextJob 14:22

Only his flesh upon him is in pain, and his soul upon him mourns .

About this coordinate

Job 14:22:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Job 14:22, so the Hebrew word אַךְ־בְּ֭שָׂרוֹ (akhbesaro) 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.14.22.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.14.22.W1.S1) and character.