Job 22:16:1Job.22.16.W1TAB

אֲשֶֽׁר־קֻמְּט֥וּ

asherkummetu

who were seized or snatched away

Transliteration
a-sher-KUM-me-tu
Extended
ah-shehr-KUHM-meh-too
IPA
/ʔă.ʃɛr.qumˈtːuː/

Meaning by language

English
who were seized or snatched away

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
אֲ + שֶֽׁר + קֻמ + מְּ + ט֥וּ
a + sher + kum + me + tu
asherkummetu

Alphabet Analysis

Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Hateph Patachreduced 'ah'
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Segholshort 'eh' as in met
Reshr guttural, like the French r
Qofq — deep k, uvular
Qibbutsshort 'oo' as in food
Memm as in mother
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Tett — emphatic
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū

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Word in context

  1. word

    a-sher-KUM-me-tu

  2. clause

    a-sher-KUM-me-tu ve-LO-ET

  3. sentence

    a-sher-KUM-me-tu ve-LO-ET na-HAR yu-TSAK ye-so-DAM

Exegesis

The verse begins with the relative pronoun asher {אֲשֶׁר | ʾă-šer} ‘who’, linking this description to preceding judgment contexts.

The Pual perfect kumtu {קֻמְּטוּ | qum·ṭū} conveys a completed passive removal at a specific moment.

Root and etymology

k-m-ṭkaf–mem–tet

to be snatched away

In contextJob 22:16

Those who were snatched away before their time, when a river was poured out on their foundation .

About this coordinate

Job 22:16:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Job 22:16, so the Hebrew word אֲשֶֽׁר־קֻמְּט֥וּ (asherkummetu) 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.22.16.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Job.22.16.W1.S1) and character.