Job 14:8:2Job.14.8.W2TAB
בָּאָ֣רֶץ
baarets
“in the earth”
- Transliteration
- ba-A-rets
- Extended
- baa-AA-rehts
- IPA
- /baːˈʔaːrɛts/
Meaning by language
- English
- in the earth
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tsade Sofit | final form of Tsade — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ba-A-rets
- clause
im-yaz-KIN ba-A-rets SHAR-she-vo
- sentence
im-yaz-KIN ba-A-rets SHAR-she-vo u-ve-a-FAR ya-MUT giz-E-vo
Exegesis
The two prepositional phrases baaretz {בָּאָ֣רֶץ | bā-ʾā-reṣ} ‘in the earth’ and uveafar {וּ֝בֶעָפָ֗ר | û-ḇe-ʿā-fār} ‘and in the dust’ create poetic parallelism that locates the decay below ground, intensifying the image of finality.
In context — Job 14:8
Even if its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the dust ,
About this coordinate
Job 14:8:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Job 14:8, so the Hebrew word בָּאָ֣רֶץ (baarets) 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.14.8.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.14.8.W2.S1) and character.