Numbers 14:33:7Num.14.33.W7TAB
וְנָשְׂא֖וּ
venaseu
“and shall suffer/carry”
- Transliteration
- ve-na-SE-u
- Extended
- veh-nah-SEH-oo
- IPA
- /vənaseˈʔuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and shall suffer/carry
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
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' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-na-SE-u
- clause
u-ve-NEI-khem yih-YU ro-IM ba-mid-BAR ar-ba-IM sha-NA ve-na-SE-u et-ze-nu-TEI-khem
- sentence
u-ve-NEI-khem yih-YU ro-IM ba-mid-BAR ar-ba-IM sha-NA ve-na-SE-u et-ze-nu-TEI-khem ad-TOM pig-rei-KHEM ba-mid-BAR
Exegesis
The coordinate ve-nas'u {וְנָשְׂאוּ | wə·nā·śū} ‘and they will bear’ (vav-consecutive perfect) introduces a resultant action that takes et-znuteichem {אֶת־זְנוּתֵיכֶ֑ם | ’et zənûṯêḵem} ‘your unfaithfulness’ as its object, linking sin to punishment.
Root and etymology
נ־ש־א
“to carry, bear”
In context — Numbers 14:33
And your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will bear the burden of your unfaithfulness until your corpses are finished in the wilderness.
About this coordinate
Numbers 14:33:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Numbers 14:33, so the Hebrew word וְנָשְׂא֖וּ (venaseu) 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 Num.14.33.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.14.33.W7.S1) and character.