Job 18:7:5Job.18.7.W5TAB
עֲצָתֽוֹ׃
atsato
“his counsel or his plan”
- Transliteration
- a-TSA-to
- Extended
- ah-TSAA-toh
- IPA
- /ʕătsaˈtoː/
Meaning by language
- English
- his counsel or his plan
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| 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
a-TSA-to
- clause
ve-tash-li-KHE-hu a-TSA-to
- sentence
ye-TSRU tsa-a-DE O-no ve-tash-li-KHE-hu a-TSA-to
Exegesis
The second colon is joined by vav and shifts to a causative verb, vetashlikhehu {וְֽתַשְׁלִיכֵ֥הוּ | wə-tašlîḵēhû} ‘and will cast him down,’ which takes atzato {עֲצָתֽוֹ | ʿăṣātô} ‘his counsel’ as the feminine singular subject; the verb’s feminine agreement highlights that his own counsel is the agent of his fall. The parallelism intensifies the irony: what should secure him (strength and counsel) becomes the mechanism of restraint and collapse.
In context — Job 18:7
The steps of his strength will be straitened, and his own counsel will cast him down.
About this coordinate
Job 18:7:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Job 18:7, so the Hebrew word עֲצָתֽוֹ׃ (atsato) 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.18.7.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.18.7.W5.S1) and character.