Proverbs 14:16:3Prov.14.16.W3TAB

וְסָ֣ר

vesar

and turns aside

Transliteration
ve-SAR
Extended
veh-SAAR
IPA
/wəˈsaːr/

Meaning by language

English
and turns aside

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
וְ + סָ֣ר
ve + sar
vesar

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Samekhs as in sit
Qametslong 'ah'
Reshr guttural, like the French r

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Word in context

  1. word

    ve-SAR

  2. clause

    kha-KHAM ya-RE ve-SAR me-RA

  3. sentence

    kha-KHAM ya-RE ve-SAR me-RA u-khe-SIL mit-e-AB-ber u-vo-TE-akh

Exegesis

It is followed by the coordinated participles yare {יָרֵא | yā-rēʾ} ‘fears’ and sar {סָר | sār} ‘turns aside’, each introduced by the conjunction vav to denote characteristic actions.

In contextProverbs 14:16

A wise person fears and turns away from evil, but the fool boils over and is confident.

About this coordinate

Proverbs 14:16:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Proverbs 14:16, so the Hebrew word וְסָ֣ר (vesar) 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.14.16.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Prov.14.16.W3.S1) and character.