Jonah 2:6:4Jonah.2.6.W4TABWLC Jonah 2:7

הָאָ֖רֶץ

haarets

the land

Transliteration
ha-A-rets
Extended
haa-AH-rehts
IPA
/haːˈʔaːrɛts/

Meaning by language

English
the land

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
הָ + אָ֖ + רֶץ
ha + a + rets
haarets

Alphabet Analysis

Heh as in house; silent at word end
Qametslong 'ah'
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Qametslong 'ah'
Reshr guttural, like the French r
Segholshort 'eh' as in met
Tsade Sofitfinal form of Tsade — at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    ha-A-rets

  2. sentence

    le-kits-VE ha-RIM ya-RAD-ti ha-A-rets be-ri-KHE-ha ba-a-DI le-o-LAM va-ta-AL mi-sha-KHAT kha-YAI ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HAI

Exegesis

The sequence haaretz beriheyah baadi leolam {הָאָ֖רֶץ בְּרִחֶ֥יָה בַעֲדִ֖י לְעוֹלָ֑ם | hā-ʾā-reṣ bə-ri-ḥe-yāh ba-ʿă-ḏî lə-ʿō-lām} forms a verbless clause whose stacked noun phrases (“the earth… its bars… around me… forever”) portray confinement with relentless accumulation; lə-ʿolam ‘forever’ functions as poetic hyperbole for irreversible entrapment.

In contextJonah 2:6

To the bases of the mountains I went down; the earth, with its bars around me, held me fast forever; yet You brought up my life from the pit , O LORD , my God .

About this coordinate

Jonah 2:6:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Jonah 2:6, so the Hebrew word הָאָ֖רֶץ (haarets) 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.2.6.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Jonah.2.6.W4.S1) and character.