Job 17:2:5Job.17.2.W5TAB
תָּלַ֥ן
talan
“lodges or spends the night”
- Transliteration
- ta-LAN
- Extended
- taa-LAHN
- IPA
- /t̪aːˈlan/
Meaning by language
- English
- lodges or spends the night
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Alphabet Analysis
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Nun Sofit | final form of Nun — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
ta-LAN
- phraseyour reading level
ta-LAN E-NI
- clause
u-ve-ham-me-ro-TAM ta-LAN E-NI
- sentence
im-LO ha-tu-LIM i-ma-DI u-ve-ham-me-ro-TAM ta-LAN E-NI
Exegesis
The verb talan {תָּלַן | tā-lan} ‘lodges’ (third person feminine singular) takes eini {עֵינִי | ʿê-nî} ‘my eye’ as its subject; the feminine agreement reflects the gender of “eye” and depicts Job’s gaze as “spending the night” amid their provocation. This yields an image of relentless, overnight mental fixation: their antagonism becomes the environment in which his perception resides. English rendering preserves the tight parallelism (presence of mockers // eye lodging in provocation) and conveys the rhetorical force of the opening oath-like construction.
Root and etymology
l-w-nlamed–vav–nun
“to lodge, spend the night”
In context — Job 17:2
Are there not mockers with me, and does not my eye lodge in their provocations , ?
About this coordinate
Job 17:2:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Job 17:2, so the Hebrew word תָּלַ֥ן (talan) 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.17.2.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.17.2.W5.S1) and character.