Job 19:28:6Job.19.28.W6TAB
נִמְצָא־בִֽי׃
nimtsabi
“is found in me”
- Transliteration
- nim-TSA-BI
- Extended
- nihm-TSAA-BEE
- IPA
- /nimˈtsaːˈviː/
Meaning by language
- English
- is found in me
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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The word
Word in context
- word
nim-TSA-BI
- clause
ve-SHO-resh da-VAR nim-TSA-BI
- sentence
KI to-ME-ru mah-NIR-daf-LO ve-SHO-resh da-VAR nim-TSA-BI
Exegesis
Finally, the perfect nimtsa-bi {נִמְצָא־בִֽי | nimtsa-bi | nimṣāʾ-bî} ‘is found in me’ places responsibility on the speaker. The coordination of questions and metaphor heightens the rhetorical impact of the friends’ accusation.
Root and etymology
Rootmem–tsade–aleph
“to find”
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 19:28:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Job 19:28, so the Hebrew word נִמְצָא־בִֽי׃ (nimtsabi) 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.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.19.28.W6.S1) and character.