Proverbs 13:18:1Prov.13.18.W1TAB

רֵ֣ישׁ

resh

poverty or destitution

Transliteration
RESH
Extended
REESH
IPA
/ˈreːʃ/

Meaning by language

English
poverty or destitution

Alphabet Analysis

Reshr guttural, like the French r
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot

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Word in context

  1. word

    RESH

  2. clause

    RESH ve-ka-LON po-RE-a mu-SAR

  3. sentence

    RESH ve-ka-LON po-RE-a mu-SAR ve-sho-MER to-KHA-khat ye-khu-BAD

Exegesis

The verse employs antithetic parallelism with reish {רֵ֣ישׁ | rēš} ‘poverty’ contrasted by veqalon {וְ֭קָלוֹן | wə-qā-lōn} ‘disgrace.’

In contextProverbs 13:18

Poverty and disgrace will come to the one who refuses discipline , but whoever keeps correction will be honored.

About this coordinate

Proverbs 13:18:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Proverbs 13:18, so the Hebrew word רֵ֣ישׁ (resh) 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.13.18.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Prov.13.18.W1.S1) and character.