Job 15:27:5Job.15.27.W5TAB
פִּימָ֣ה
pima
“fatness”
- Transliteration
- pi-MA
- Extended
- pih-MAA
- IPA
- /piˈmaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- fatness
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Alphabet Analysis
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
pi-MA
- phraseyour reading level
pi-MA a-LEI-kha-SEL
- clause
va-ya-AS pi-MA a-LEI-kha-SEL
- sentence
ki-khis-SA pa-NAV be-KHEL-vo va-ya-AS pi-MA a-LEI-kha-SEL
Exegesis
The second clause advances the depiction with a subsequent action, “and he made thickness,” focusing on the result of excess: pima {פִּימָה | pîmāh} evokes a mass or folds of fat, while alei-kasel {עֲלֵי־כָסֶל | ʿălê-kāsel} specifies the bodily location (flanks/waist area). The parallel clauses build a single portrait through concrete, almost grotesque, physical imagery; English retains the two-step progression (covering, then forming) to preserve the accumulating rhetorical force.
A major lexical question is pima {פִּימָה | pîmāh}, which can be rendered as “folds,” “thickness,” or “fatty bulges”; “thickness/bulges” best matches the paired location phrase and the verse’s emphasis on excess.
Root and etymology
p-y-mpeh–yod–mem
“thickness, mass”
In context — Job 15:27
For he has covered his face with fat , and he has made thickness upon his flanks .
About this coordinate
Job 15:27:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Job 15:27, so the Hebrew word פִּימָ֣ה (pima) 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.15.27.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.15.27.W5.S1) and character.