Job 18:12:5Job.18.12.W5TAB
לְצַלְעֽוֹ׃
letsaleo
“for his stumbling”
- Transliteration
- le-TSAL-e-O
- Extended
- leh-TSAL-eh-OH
- IPA
- /ləˈtsal.ʕoː/
Meaning by language
- English
- for his stumbling
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go |
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The word
Word in context
- word
le-TSAL-e-O
- 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
consonantsTsade–Lamed–Ayin
“side”
In context — Job 18:12
His strength will be hunger-stricken, and disaster is prepared at his side .
About this coordinate
Job 18:12:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Job 18:12, so the Hebrew word לְצַלְעֽוֹ׃ (letsaleo) 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.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.18.12.W5.S1) and character.