Job 18:19:8Job.18.19.W8TAB
בִּמְגוּרָֽיו׃
bimgurai
“in his dwelling places”
- Transliteration
- bim-gu-RAI
- Extended
- bihm-geh-goo-RAI
- IPA
- /bim.ɡuːˈraːw/
Meaning by language
- English
- in his dwelling places
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Gimel | g as in good | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
bim-gu-RAI
- clause
ve-EN sa-RID bim-gu-RAI
- sentence
LO NIN LO ve-LO-NE-khed be-a-MO ve-EN sa-RID bim-gu-RAI
Exegesis
The closing prepositional phrase bi-məḡûrāyw {בִּמְגוּרָיו | bi-məḡûrāyw} ‘in his dwellings/sojournings’ extends the devastation from lineage to every place associated with his life, producing a bleak parallelism of family extinction and social erasure.
Root and etymology
consonantsgimel–vav–resh
“sojourn, reside”
In context — Job 18:19
There is no offspring for him, and no descendant among his people, and there is no survivor in his dwellings .
About this coordinate
Job 18:19:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Job 18:19, so the Hebrew word בִּמְגוּרָֽיו׃ (bimgurai) 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.18.19.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.18.19.W8.S1) and character.