Leviticus 26:39:9Lev.26.39.W9TAB
אֲבֹתָ֖ם
avotaam
“their fathers”
- Transliteration
- a-vo-TAAM
- Extended
- ah-voh-TAAM
- IPA
- /ʔa.voˈtaːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- their fathers
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Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
a-vo-TAAM
- phraseyour reading level
ba-a-vo-NOHT a-vo-TAAM
- clause
veh-AF ba-a-vo-NOHT a-vo-TAAM it-TAAM yim-MAA-koo
- sentence
veh-han-nish-a-REEM bah-KHEM yim-MA-koo ba-a-vo-NAAM be-ar-TSOT oy-vey-KHEM veh-AF ba-a-vo-NOHT a-vo-TAAM it-TAAM yim-MAA-koo
Exegesis
The additive conjunction veaf {וְאַף | və-’af} ‘and also’ introduces a parallel clause intensified by the construct chain baavonot avotam {בַּעֲוֺנֹת אֲבֹתָם | ba-ʿă-wo-nōṯ ’a-vo-tām} ‘in the iniquities of their fathers’, and the final imperfect yimmaku {יִמָּקוּ | yim-mā-qû} ‘shall waste away’ mirrors the opening verb, forming a chiastic parallelism that underscores inevitable judgment.
Root and etymology
b-tbet–tav
“daughter”
In context — Leviticus 26:39
And those who remain among you will waste away in their iniquity in the lands of your enemies; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they will waste away with them.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 26:39:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Leviticus 26:39, so the Hebrew word אֲבֹתָ֖ם (avotaam) 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 Lev.26.39.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.26.39.W9.S1) and character.