Job 18:12:4Job.18.12.W4TAB
נָכ֥וֹן
nakhon
“prepared or ready”
- Transliteration
- na-KHON
- Extended
- naa-KHOHN
- IPA
- /naːˈxoːn/
Meaning by language
- English
- prepared or ready
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Nun Sofit | final form of Nun — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
na-KHON
- phraseyour reading level
na-KHON le-TSAL-e-O
- clause
ve-ED na-KHON le-TSAL-e-O
- sentence
ye-HI-RA-ev o-NO ve-ED na-KHON le-TSAL-e-O
Exegesis
The participle nakhon {נָכוֹן | nāḵôn} ‘prepared’ depicts calamity as already positioned and poised, while the prepositional phrase letsal'o {לְצַלְעוֹ | ləṣalʿô} ‘at his side’ intensifies immediacy by locating the danger in close proximity. Some renderings shift the hunger imagery toward the calamity itself, but the surface syntax reads most naturally with “his strength” as the entity described as hungry, maintaining the verse’s metaphor of weakening before ruin.
Root and etymology
consonantsKaf–Vav–Nun
“be firm, be established”
In context — Job 18:12
His strength will be hunger-stricken, and disaster is prepared at his side .
About this coordinate
Job 18:12:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Job 18:12, so the Hebrew word נָכ֥וֹן (nakhon) 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.18.12.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.18.12.W4.S1) and character.