Jonah 2:4:3Jonah.2.4.W3TABWLC Jonah 2:5
נִגְרַ֖שְׁתִּי
nigrashti
“I was driven out”
- Transliteration
- nig-RASH-ti
- Extended
- nihg-RAHSH-tih
- IPA
- /niɣˈraʃt.ti/
Meaning by language
- English
- I was driven out
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Gimel | g as in good | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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The word
Word in context
- word
nig-RASH-ti
- sentence
va-a-NI a-MAR-ti nig-RASH-ti mi-NE-ged E-ne-KHA AKH o-SIF le-ha-BIT el-he-KHAL KAD-she-KHA
Exegesis
The perfect form nigrashti {נִגְרַשְׁתִּי | nigrāšṭî} ‘I was driven out’ conveys a completed expulsion. The prepositional phrase mineged …
Root and etymology
g-r-sh
“drive out, expel”
In context — Jonah 2:4
And I said, “I am cast out from before Your eyes; yet I will again look toward Your holy temple .”
About this coordinate
Jonah 2:4:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Jonah 2:4, so the Hebrew word נִגְרַ֖שְׁתִּי (nigrashti) 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.2.4.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Jonah.2.4.W3.S1) and character.