Numbers 23:19:4Num.23.19.W4TAB
וִֽיכַזֵּ֔ב
vikhazzev
“that he should lie”
- Transliteration
- vi-khaz-ZEV
- Extended
- vih-khaz-ZEEV
- IPA
- /vi.xazˈzeːv/
Meaning by language
- English
- that he should lie
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Zayin | z as in zero | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh |
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The word
Word in context
- word
vi-khaz-ZEV
- clause
LO ISH EL vi-khaz-ZEV u-VEN-a-DAM ve-yit-ne-KHAM
- sentence
LO ISH EL vi-khaz-ZEV u-VEN-a-DAM ve-yit-ne-KHAM ha-HU a-MAR ve-LO ya-a-SE ve-dib-BER ve-LO ye-ki-me-NA
Exegesis
It employs synonymous parallelism by pairing ish {אִישׁ | ʾîš} ‘man’ with ben-ʾā-ḏām {בֶן־אָדָם | ben-ʾā-ḏām} ‘son of man’, each followed by a vav-consecutive + imperfect clause: viyikazzev {וִיכַזֵּב | wî-yixaẓ-ẓēḇ} ‘would lie’ (Piel imperfect) and veyitneham {וְיִתְנֶחָם | wə-yit-ne-ḥām} ‘would relent’ (Hitpael imperfect), both negated to underscore divine freedom from deceit or regret.
Root and etymology
Rootkaf–zayin–bet
“to lie, deceive”
In context — Numbers 23:19
God is not a human that He should speak falsely , nor a son of man that He should relent. Has He spoken, and will He not do it? Or has He declared it, and will He not bring it to pass?
About this coordinate
Numbers 23:19:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Numbers 23:19, so the Hebrew word וִֽיכַזֵּ֔ב (vikhazzev) 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.23.19.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.23.19.W4.S1) and character.