Jonah 2:3:5Jonah.2.3.W5TABWLC Jonah 2:4
וְנָהָ֖ר
venahar
“and a river or current”
- Transliteration
- ve-na-HAR
- Extended
- veh-naa-HAAR
- IPA
- /vənaːˈhaːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- and a river or current
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Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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Word in context
- word
ve-na-HAR
- sentence
va-tash-li-KHE-ni me-tsu-LA bil-le-VAV ya-MIM ve-na-HAR ye-sov-VE-ni KAL-mish-ba-RE-kha ve-gal-LE-kha a-LAI a-va-RU
Exegesis
The clause venahar yesovveni {וְנָהָר יְסֹבְבֵנִי | wə-nāhār yə-sōḇḇēnî} ‘and a torrent surrounds me’ shifts from vertical plunge to horizontal enclosure; the singular subject “torrent” functions collectively, matched by the encircling verb to communicate entrapment.
Root and etymology
Rootnun–heh–resh
“to flow, stream”
In context — Jonah 2:3
And You cast me into the deep , in the heart of the seas; the flood surrounded me, all Your breakers and Your waves passed over me.
About this coordinate
Jonah 2:3:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Jonah 2:3, so the Hebrew word וְנָהָ֖ר (venahar) 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 Jonah.2.3.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Jonah.2.3.W5.S1) and character.