Job 15:27:6Job.15.27.W6TAB
עֲלֵי־כָֽסֶל׃
aleikhasel
“upon the waist”
- Transliteration
- a-LEI-kha-SEL
- Extended
- ah-LEE-khaa-SEL
- IPA
- /ʕăleː.ˈxaː.sɛl/
Meaning by language
- English
- upon the waist
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Samekh | s as in sit | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Lamed | l as in law |
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Word in context
- word
a-LEI-kha-SEL
- 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.
Root and etymology
k-s-lkaf–samekh–lamed
“flank, loins”
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 15:27:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Job 15:27, so the Hebrew word עֲלֵי־כָֽסֶל׃ (aleikhasel) 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.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.15.27.W6.S1) and character.