Job 15:10:6Job.15.10.W6TAB
יָמִֽים׃
yamim
“in days or years”
- Transliteration
- ya-MIM
- Extended
- yah-MEEM
- IPA
- /jaːˈmiːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- in days or years
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
ya-MIM
- phraseyour reading level
me-a-VI-kha ya-MIM
- clause
ka-BIR me-a-VI-kha ya-MIM
- sentence
gam-SAV gam-ya-SHISH BA-nu ka-BIR me-a-VI-kha ya-MIM
Exegesis
The adjective kabir {כַּבִּיר | kabbîr} ‘great’ is applied to yamim {יָמִים | yāmîm} ‘days,’ a common Hebrew idiom in which “days” stands metonymically for length of life and accumulated experience; the comparison is sharpened by me-avikha {מֵאָבִיךָ | mē-ʾāḇîkā} ‘than your father.’ The sentence’s compact, nominal style (no explicit finite verb) heightens rhetorical force, making the claim sound like an established fact rather than an argument.
Root and etymology
consonantsYod–Vav–Mem
“day, time”
In context — Job 15:10
Both the gray-haired and the very aged are with us , greater in days than your father.
About this coordinate
Job 15:10:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Job 15:10, so the Hebrew word יָמִֽים׃ (yamim) 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.15.10.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.15.10.W6.S1) and character.