Job 18:21:6Job.18.21.W6TAB
לֹא־יָדַֽע־אֵֽל׃
loyadael
“not knowing God”
- Transliteration
- lo-YA-da-EL
- Extended
- loh-YAA-dah-EEL
- IPA
- /loː.jaːˈdaʕ.ʔeːl/
Meaning by language
- English
- not knowing God
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Lamed | l as in law |
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The word
Word in context
- word
lo-YA-da-EL
- phraseyour reading level
me-KOM lo-YA-da-EL
- clause
ve-ZEH me-KOM lo-YA-da-EL
- sentence
AKH-E-LEH mish-ke-NOT a-VAL ve-ZEH me-KOM lo-YA-da-EL
Exegesis
The string lo-yada-el {לֹא־יָדַֽע־אֵֽל׃ | lō-yāḏaʿ-ʾēl} ‘not knew God’ functions as a relative description of “the one,” without an explicit relative marker in Hebrew; English supplies “who” or “one who” to make the relationship clear.
Root and etymology
consonantsYod–Dalet–Ayin
“to know”
In context — Job 18:21
Surely, these are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of the one who does not know God .
About this coordinate
Job 18:21:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Job 18:21, so the Hebrew word לֹא־יָדַֽע־אֵֽל׃ (loyadael) 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.18.21.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.18.21.W6.S1) and character.