Job 19:28:3Job.19.28.W3TAB
מַה־נִּרְדָּף־ל֑וֹ
mahnirdaflo
“what we will pursue to him”
- Transliteration
- mah-NIR-daf-LO
- Extended
- mah-NIHR-daaf-LOH
- IPA
- /mahˈnir.dafˈloː/
Meaning by language
- English
- what we will pursue to him
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Pe Sofit | final form of Pe — at word end | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| 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
mah-NIR-daf-LO
- clause
KI to-ME-ru mah-NIR-daf-LO
- sentence
KI to-ME-ru mah-NIR-daf-LO ve-SHO-resh da-VAR nim-TSA-BI
Exegesis
The question mah-nirdaf-lo {מַה־נִּרְדָּף־ל֑וֹ | mah-nirdaf-lo | mah-nirdāf-lô} employs a Niphal participle to express reciprocal pursuit and a suffix marking “him”.
Root and etymology
Rootresh–dalet–pe
“to pursue”
In context — Job 19:28
If you say, “Why do we pursue him?”—yet the root of the matter is found in me.
About this coordinate
Job 19:28:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Job 19:28, so the Hebrew word מַה־נִּרְדָּף־ל֑וֹ (mahnirdaflo) 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.19.28.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.19.28.W3.S1) and character.