Job 21:28:6Job.21.28.W6TAB
אֹ֤הֶל
ohel
“tent”
- Transliteration
- O-hel
- Extended
- OH-hehl
- IPA
- /ˈʔoːhɛl/
Meaning by language
- English
- tent
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Lamed | l as in law |
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The word
Word in context
- word
O-hel
- phraseyour reading level
O-hel mish-ke-NOT re-sha-IM
- clause
ve-a-YE O-hel mish-ke-NOT re-sha-IM
- sentence
KI to-ME-ru a-YE BET-na-DIV ve-a-YE O-hel mish-ke-NOT re-sha-IM
Exegesis
The construct beit-nadiv {בֵית־נָדִיב | bêṯ-nāḏîḇ} ‘house of a nobleman’ evokes high social standing, while the following phrase ohel miškənôṯ reshaim {אֹהֶל ׀ מִשְׁכְּנוֹת רְשָׁעִים | ʾōhel miškənôṯ rešāʿîm} is tightly linked: ‘tent’ is further specified by the construct ‘dwellings of the wicked,’ functioning appositionally (a tent characterized as the wicked person’s dwelling place). The piling up of habitation terms (beit, ohel, mishkenot) intensifies the rhetorical force: the speakers assume the disappearance of a residence proves the downfall of the powerful wicked, which Job is about to counter in the larger discourse. English preserves the parallel interrogatives and renders the construct relationships with possessive/of-phrases to keep the poetic symmetry clear.
Root and etymology
consonantsAleph–Heh–Lamed
“tent, dwelling”
In context — Job 21:28
For you say, “Where is the house of the nobleman? And where is the tent, the dwellings of the wicked?”
About this coordinate
Job 21:28:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Job 21:28, so the Hebrew word אֹ֤הֶל (ohel) 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.21.28.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.21.28.W6.S1) and character.