Job 21:32:4Job.21.32.W4TAB
וְֽעַל־גָּדִ֥ישׁ
vealgadish
“and over a mound”
- Transliteration
- ve-AL-ga-DISH
- Extended
- veh-AL-gaa-DEESH
- IPA
- /vəˈʕal.ɡaːˈdiːʃ/
Meaning by language
- English
- and over a mound
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Gimel | g as in good | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-AL-ga-DISH
- clause
ve-AL-ga-DISH yish-KOD
- sentence
ve-HU lik-VA-rot yu-VAL ve-AL-ga-DISH yish-KOD
Exegesis
The second clause begins with the coordinated prepositional phrase veʿal-gadish {וְעַל־גָּדִישׁ | wə-ʿal-ɡā-ḏîš} ‘and over the mound,’ a poetic tomb marker, and concludes with the Qal imperfect yishqod {יִשְׁקֹד | yiš-qō-ḏ} ‘keeps watch,’ conveying an ongoing vigil. English mirrors this parallelism and preserves the Hebrew imperfect’s aspectual distinctions through passive and progressive renderings.
Root and etymology
g-d-shgimel–dalet–shin
“mound, heap”
In context — Job 21:32
Yet he will be brought to the graves, and a watch is kept over the mound .
About this coordinate
Job 21:32:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Job 21:32, so the Hebrew word וְֽעַל־גָּדִ֥ישׁ (vealgadish) 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.21.32.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.21.32.W4.S1) and character.