Job 20:3:1Job.20.3.W1TAB

מוּסַ֣ר

musar

discipline or instruction

Transliteration
MU-sar
Extended
MOO-sahr
IPA
/muːˈsar/

Meaning by language

English
discipline or instruction

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
מוּ + סַ֣ר
mu + sar
musar

Alphabet Analysis

Memm as in mother
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Samekhs as in sit
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Reshr guttural, like the French r

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Word in context

  1. word

    MU-sar

  2. clause

    MU-sar ke-lim-MA-ti e-she-MA

  3. sentence

    MU-sar ke-lim-MA-ti e-she-MA ve-RU-akh mi-bi-NA-ti ya-a-NE-ni

Exegesis

The verse opens with a tight construct chain, musar {מוּסַ֣ר | mû-sār} ‘discipline, rebuke’ + kelimati {כְּלִמָּתִ֣י | kəlimmāṯî} ‘my disgrace’, placing the shaming character of the rebuke in the foreground before the verb appears.

Root and etymology

y-s-ryod–samekh–resh

to discipline

In contextJob 20:3

I hear instruction of my reproach, and the spirit from my understanding answers me.

About this coordinate

Job 20:3:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Job 20:3, so the Hebrew word מוּסַ֣ר (musar) 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.20.3.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.20.3.W1.S1) and character.