Job 19:15:5Job.19.15.W5TAB
תַּחְשְׁבֻ֑נִי
takhshevuni
“they account me”
- Transliteration
- takh-she-VU-ni
- Extended
- tahkh-sheh-VUH-nih
- IPA
- /taħ.ʃəˈvuː.niː/
Meaning by language
- English
- they account me
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qibbuts | short 'oo' as in food | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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The word
Word in context
- word
takh-she-VU-ni
- 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’.
The second person plural in tachshevuni {תַּחְשְׁבֻ֑נִי | taḥšəvûnî} functions as a direct address to the household group(s), while the concluding idiom be’eineihem {בְעֵינֵיהֶֽם | bə-ʿênêhem} ‘in their eyes’ specifies that this estrangement is expressed as a settled evaluation. Rendering the two descriptors “stranger” and “foreigner” in English preserves the tightening parallelism and the intensification from social distance to complete exclusion.
Root and etymology
consonantschet–shin–bet
“to think, reckon”
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 19:15:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Job 19:15, so the Hebrew word תַּחְשְׁבֻ֑נִי (takhshevuni) 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.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.19.15.W5.S1) and character.