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

Result
נִמְ + צָא + בִֽי׃
nim + tsa + bi
nimtsabi

Alphabet Analysis

Nunn as in new
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Memm as in mother
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Tsadets as in cats
Qametslong 'ah'
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Yody as in yes; marks long ī

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Word in context

  1. word

    nim-TSA-BI

  2. clause

    ve-SHO-resh da-VAR nim-TSA-BI

  3. 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 contextJob 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.