Job 19:17:4Job.19.17.W4TAB
וְ֝חַנֹּתִ֗י
vekhanoti
“and my pleading”
- Transliteration
- ve-kha-NO-ti
- Extended
- veh-khah-NOH-tih
- IPA
- /vəħanˈnoːti/
Meaning by language
- English
- and my pleading
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-kha-NO-ti
- clause
ve-kha-NO-ti liv-NE vit-NI
- sentence
RU-khi za-RA le-ish-TI ve-kha-NO-ti liv-NE vit-NI
Exegesis
The second colon opens with vekhanoti {וְחַנֹּתִי | wəḥannōṯî}, an infinitive construct used substantively for pleas, creating an elliptical parallel to the first cola; this is rendered idiomatically in dynamic as a finite action.
Root and etymology
Rootchet–nun–nun
“to show favor”
In context — Job 19:17
My breath is strange to my wife, yet my pleading is to the children of my own body .
About this coordinate
Job 19:17:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Job 19:17, so the Hebrew word וְ֝חַנֹּתִ֗י (vekhanoti) 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.19.17.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.19.17.W4.S1) and character.