Job 16:14:3Job.16.14.W3TAB
עַל־פְּנֵי־פָ֑רֶץ
alpeneifarets
“upon the face of breach”
- Transliteration
- al-pe-NEI-fa-RETS
- Extended
- ahl-peh-NEE-faa-REHTS
- IPA
- /ʕal.pəˈneː.faːˈrɛts/
Meaning by language
- English
- upon the face of breach
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| 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
al-pe-NEI-fa-RETS
- clause
yif-re-TSE-ni PE-rets al-pe-NEI-fa-RETS
- sentence
yif-re-TSE-ni PE-rets al-pe-NEI-fa-RETS ya-RUTS a-LAI ke-gib-BOR
Exegesis
The sequence perets {פֶ֭רֶץ | pereṣ} followed by the prepositional chain al-penei-farets {עַל־פְּנֵי־פָ֑רֶץ | ʿal-pənê-p̄āreṣ} ‘upon the face of a breach’ forms an idiom of accumulation (“breach upon breach”), where repetition functions rhetorically to depict successive, compounding blows rather than a single event.
Root and etymology
consonantspe–resh–tsade
“to break through, burst”
In context — Job 16:14
He breaks through me with breach upon breach; He runs upon me like a mighty man .
About this coordinate
Job 16:14:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Job 16:14, so the Hebrew word עַל־פְּנֵי־פָ֑רֶץ (alpeneifarets) 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.16.14.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.16.14.W3.S1) and character.