Proverbs 14:23:5Prov.14.23.W5TAB
אַךְ־לְמַחְסֽוֹר׃
akhlemakhsor
“only to lack or poverty”
- Transliteration
- AKH-le-makh-SOR
- Extended
- AHKH-leh-mahkh-SOHR
- IPA
- /ʔaχ.ləmaħˈsoːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- only to lack or poverty
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
u-de-VAR-se-fa-TA-yim AKH-le-makh-SOR
- sentence
be-KHOL-E-tsev yih-ye-YE mo-TAR u-de-VAR-se-fa-TA-yim AKH-le-makh-SOR
Exegesis
The adversative particle akh {אַךְ־ | ʾăḵ} ‘only’ signals the contrasting outcome expressed by the substantive infinitive le-machsor {לְמַחְסֽוֹר | lə-maḥ-ṣôr} ‘to lack’. The balanced word order and sound repetition underscore the pragmatic contrast between productive effort and idle speech, a contrast preserved in English through parallel clauses and the adversative “but.”
Root and etymology
ḥ-s-rchet–samekh–resh
“to lack”
In context — Proverbs 14:23
In all labor there is profit, but the speech of the lips leads only to want .
About this coordinate
Proverbs 14:23:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Proverbs 14:23, 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.14.23.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Prov.14.23.W5.S1) and character.