Job 15:16:3Job.15.16.W3TAB
וְֽנֶאֱלָ֑ח
veneelakh
“and corrupted or defiled”
- Transliteration
- ve-ne-e-LAKH
- Extended
- veh-neh-eh-LAAKH
- IPA
- /vənɛʔˈlaːħ/
Meaning by language
- English
- and corrupted or defiled
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hateph Seghol | reduced 'eh' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-ne-e-LAKH
- clause
AF KI-nit-e-AV ve-ne-e-LAKH
- sentence
AF KI-nit-e-AV ve-ne-e-LAKH ISH-sho-TE kha-ma-YIM a-VE-la
Exegesis
Two Niphal participles, nitav {כִּֽי־נִתְעָ֥ב | kî-niṯ-ʿāḇ} ‘detestable’ and veneelach {וְֽנֶאֱלָ֑ח | wə-neʾĕlāḥ} ‘corrupt’, form a stacked predicate describing the subject before his characteristic behavior is specified.
Root and etymology
consonantsAleph–Lamed–Chet
“to be foul, polluted”
In context — Job 15:16
Indeed, how much more detestable and corrupt is a man who drinks iniquity like water.
About this coordinate
Job 15:16:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Job 15:16, so the Hebrew word וְֽנֶאֱלָ֑ח (veneelakh) 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.15.16.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.15.16.W3.S1) and character.