Proverbs 11:24:7Prov.11.24.W7TAB
אַךְ־לְמַחְסֽוֹר׃
akhlemakhsor
“only to lack”
- Transliteration
- AKH-le-makh-SOR
- Extended
- AHK-leh-mahkh-SOHR
- IPA
- /ʔaχ.ləmaħˈsoːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- only to lack
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Samekh | s as in sit | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
AKH-le-makh-SOR
- clause
ve-kho-SEKH mi-YO-sher AKH-le-makh-SOR
- sentence
YESH me-faz-ZER ve-no-SAF OD ve-kho-SEKH mi-YO-sher AKH-le-makh-SOR
Exegesis
The prepositional phrase miyosher {מִיֹּשֶׁר | mî-yō-šer} ‘from uprightness’ emphasizes ethical context before the adversative particle akh in akhlemakhsor {אַךְ־לְמַחְסֽוֹר | ʾakh-lə-makh-sôr}, where akh expresses contrast and the preposition+noun indicate the result ‘to poverty’. The balanced parallelism and chiastic arrangement underscore the proverb’s contrast between giving and withholding and their respective consequences.
Root and etymology
kh-s-rkh-s-r
“to lack”
In context — Proverbs 11:24
There is one who scatters, yet he increases even more, and one who withholds from uprightness, but it leads only to poverty.
About this coordinate
Proverbs 11:24:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Proverbs 11:24, so the Hebrew word אַךְ־לְמַחְסֽוֹר׃ (akhlemakhsor) 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 Prov.11.24.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Prov.11.24.W7.S1) and character.