מִ֝תְרוֹשֵׁ֗שׁ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 מִ֝תְרוֹשֵׁ֗שׁ

   mit-ro-SHESH

   making himself poor or pretending to be poor
2. clause🔊 מִ֝תְרוֹשֵׁ֗שׁ וְה֣וֹן רָֽב׃

   mit-ro-SHESH ve-HON RAV

   making himself poor or pretending to be poor and wealth much or great
3. sentence🔊 יֵ֣שׁ מִ֭תְעַשֵּׁר וְאֵ֣ין כֹּ֑ל מִ֝תְרוֹשֵׁ֗שׁ וְה֣וֹן רָֽב׃

   YESH mit-e-a-SHER ve-EN KOL mit-ro-SHESH ve-HON RAV

   there is making himself rich or pretending to be rich and there is not anything or all making himself poor or pretending to be poor and wealth much or great

Exegesis

The second line mirrors this pattern with the reflexive participle mitrosheish {מִתְרוֹשֵׁשׁ | mit-rō-šēš} ‘making himself poor’ followed by the affirmative phrase ve-hon rav {וְהוֹן רָב | wə-hōn rāḇ} ‘and abundant wealth’. The Hitpael stem conveys self-directed action, and the coordinating vav links the contrasting stichs, intensifying the rhetorical contrast between appearance and reality.