Job 20:14:1Job.20.14.W1TAB
לַ֭חְמוֹ
lakhmo
“his bread or his food”
- Transliteration
- lakh-MO
- Extended
- lahkh-MOH
- IPA
- /laħˈmoː/
Meaning by language
- English
- his bread or his food
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| 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
lakh-MO
- clause
lakh-MO be-me-AV ne-he-PAKH
- sentence
lakh-MO be-me-AV ne-he-PAKH me-ro-RAT pe-ta-NIM be-kir-BO
Exegesis
The verse is a single clause describing internal reversal: the subject lakhmo {לַ֭חְמוֹ | laḥ-mô} ‘his food’ is followed immediately by the locative prepositional phrase bemeav {בְּמֵעָ֣יו | bə-mē-ʿāw} ‘in his inward parts,’ placing the transformation inside the person rather than in the external food itself.
Root and etymology
consonants ל־ח־םlamed–chet–mem
“to eat, consume”
In context — Job 20:14
His food is turned in his inward parts, becoming the bitterness of serpents within him .
About this coordinate
Job 20:14:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Job 20:14, so the Hebrew word לַ֭חְמוֹ (lakhmo) 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.20.14.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.20.14.W1.S1) and character.