Job 19:15:4Job.19.15.W4TAB
לְזָ֣ר
lezar
“as a stranger”
- Transliteration
- le-ZAR
- Extended
- leh-ZAAR
- IPA
- /ləˈzaːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- as a stranger
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Zayin | z as in zero | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
le-ZAR
- phraseyour reading level
be-TI ve-am-ho-TAI le-ZAR takh-she-VU-ni
- clause
ga-RE be-TI ve-am-ho-TAI le-ZAR takh-she-VU-ni
- sentence
ga-RE be-TI ve-am-ho-TAI le-ZAR takh-she-VU-ni na-KHRI ha-YI-ti be-e-NE-hem
Exegesis
The predicate is built in two parallel steps: first, the verbal clause lezar tachshevuni {לְזָ֣ר תַּחְשְׁבֻ֑נִי | lə-zār taḥšəvûnî} ‘as a stranger you consider me’, then a reinforcing verbless-style identification followed by a finite verb, nachri hayiti {נָ֝כְרִ֗י הָיִ֥יתִי | nāḵrî hāyîṯî} ‘a foreigner I have become’.
Root and etymology
consonantszayin–vav–resh
“to be strange”
In context — Job 19:15
The sojourners of my house and my female servants consider me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.
About this coordinate
Job 19:15:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Job 19:15, so the Hebrew word לְזָ֣ר (lezar) 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.19.15.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.19.15.W4.S1) and character.