Malachi 2:3:9Mal.2.3.W9TAB
חַגֵּיכֶ֑ם
khagekhem
“your feasts or your festival offerings {plural}”
- Transliteration
- kha-GE-khem
- Extended
- khah-GEH-khehm
- IPA
- /ħaɣˈɣeː.χɛm/
Meaning by language
- English
- your feasts or your festival offerings {plural}
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Gimel | g as in good | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
kha-GE-khem
- clause
hin-ne-NI go-ER la-KHEM et-ha-ZE-ra ve-ze-RI-ti PE-resh al-pe-NE-khem PE-resh kha-GE-khem
- sentence
hin-ne-NI go-ER la-KHEM et-ha-ZE-ra ve-ze-RI-ti PE-resh al-pe-NE-khem PE-resh kha-GE-khem ve-na-SA et-ke-KHEM e-LAV
Exegesis
Repetition of pereš in construct with ḥaggê-ḵem {חַגֵּיכֶם | ḥaggê-ḵem} evokes ritual pollution of feasts.
Root and etymology
Rootchet–gimel–gimel
“festival, assembly”
In context — Malachi 2:3
Behold, I will rebuke your offspring , and I will throw dung upon your faces—the dung of your feasts—and you will be carried away with it.
About this coordinate
Malachi 2:3:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Malachi 2:3, so the Hebrew word חַגֵּיכֶ֑ם (khagekhem) 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 Mal.2.3.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Mal.2.3.W9.S1) and character.