Job 20:16:3Job.20.16.W3TAB
תַּֽ֝הַרְגֵ֗הוּ
taharegehu
“it will kill him”
- Transliteration
- ta-ha-re-GE-hu
- Extended
- tah-hah-reh-GEH-hoo
- IPA
- /ta.harˈɣeː.huː/
Meaning by language
- English
- it will kill him
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Gimel | g as in good | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ta-ha-re-GE-hu
- clause
ta-ha-re-GE-hu le-SHON e-fe-A
- sentence
rosh-pe-ta-NIM yi-NAK ta-ha-re-GE-hu le-SHON e-fe-A
Exegesis
The following imperfect tahargehu {תַּֽ֝הַרְגֵ֗הוּ | tahargēhû} ‘she will kill him’ is marked as feminine singular, aligning syntactically with the feminine subject leshon {לְשׁוֹן | ləšôn} ‘tongue,’ even though the referent is the snake; this agreement heightens the personified agency of the “tongue.”
Root and etymology
consonantsheh–resh–gimel
“to kill, slay”
In context — Job 20:16
He will suck the poison of serpents ; the tongue of a viper will kill him.
About this coordinate
Job 20:16:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Job 20:16, so the Hebrew word תַּֽ֝הַרְגֵ֗הוּ (taharegehu) 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.20.16.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.20.16.W3.S1) and character.