Proverbs 13:6:4Prov.13.6.W4TAB
וְ֝רִשְׁעָ֗ה
verisha
“and wickedness”
- Transliteration
- ve-rish-A
- Extended
- veh-rihsh-AAH
- IPA
- /vəriʃˈʕaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and wickedness
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 | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
ve-rish-A
- clause
ve-rish-A te-sal-LEF khat-TAT
- sentence
tse-da-KA ti-TSOR TAM-da-REKH ve-rish-A te-sal-LEF khat-TAT
Exegesis
The conjunction ve {וְ | wə} functions adversatively, introducing rishah {רִשְׁעָה | ri-šā‘} ‘wickedness’ as subject, the Piel imperfect tesallel {תְּסַלֵּ֥ף | tə-sal-lêp} ‘she perverts’ indicating intensive action, and chattaat {חַטָּאת | ḥat-tā‘} ‘sinner’ as object. This antithetical parallelism personifies moral forces, and the Piel stem’s intensive sense, rendered as ‘overthrows’, underscores wickedness’s destructive outcome.
Root and etymology
Rootr-sh-‘
“to act wickedly”
In context — Proverbs 13:6
Righteousness guards the blameless one in his way, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
About this coordinate
Proverbs 13:6:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Proverbs 13:6, so the Hebrew word וְ֝רִשְׁעָ֗ה (verisha) 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.13.6.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Prov.13.6.W4.S1) and character.