Proverbs 19:15:6Prov.19.15.W6TAB
תִרְעָֽב׃
tirav
“will be hungry”
- Transliteration
- tir-AV
- Extended
- tih-reh-AAV
- IPA
- /tir.ʕaːv/
Meaning by language
- English
- will be hungry
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh |
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Word in context
- word
tir-AV
- phraseyour reading level
re-MI-ya tir-AV
- clause
ve-NE-fesh re-MI-ya tir-AV
- sentence
A-tsa-la ta-PIL tar-de-MA ve-NE-fesh re-MI-ya tir-AV
Exegesis
The second clause begins with the conjunction wə {וְ | wə} linking to the noun nəp̄eš {נֶפֶשׁ | nəp̄eš} ‘soul’, modified by the adjective rəmiyyāh {רְמִיָּה | rəmiyyāh} ‘slack’, and followed by the Qal imperfect tirʿāv {תִרְעָב | tirʿāv} ‘will hunger’. Both verbal predicates appear in the third person feminine singular, reinforcing poetic symmetry. The Hebrew placement of the verb before its object in the first clause heightens the causative effect. In translation, “will bring on” and “will end up hungry” preserve the future orientation and causal relationship, while “and” maintains the connective parallelism found in the Hebrew.
Root and etymology
r-ʿ-bresh–ayin–bet
“to hunger”
In context — Proverbs 19:15
Laziness will bring on a deep sleep , and an idle soul will go hungry.
About this coordinate
Proverbs 19:15:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Proverbs 19:15, so the Hebrew word תִרְעָֽב׃ (tirav) 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.19.15.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Prov.19.15.W6.S1) and character.