Proverbs 21:29:5Prov.21.29.W5TAB
וְ֝יָשָׁ֗ר
veyashar
“but the upright”
- Transliteration
- ve-ya-SHAR
- Extended
- veh-yaa-SHAAR
- IPA
- /vəjaˈʃaːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- but the upright
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 | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-ya-SHAR
- clause
ve-ya-SHAR HU ya-KHIN ya-VIN dar-KHAV dar-KO
- sentence
he-EZ ISH ra-SHA be-fa-NAV ve-ya-SHAR HU ya-KHIN ya-VIN dar-KHAV dar-KO
Exegesis
The conjunction veyashar {וְ֝יָשָׁ֗ר | wə-yā-šār} ‘but the upright’ introduces contrastive parallelism, with the pronoun hu {ה֤וּא | hūʾ} ‘he’ adding emphasis.
Root and etymology
י־שׁ־ר
“straight, upright”
In context — Proverbs 21:29
The wicked man puts on a bold face, but the upright establishes and discerns his way.
About this coordinate
Proverbs 21:29:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Proverbs 21:29, so the Hebrew word וְ֝יָשָׁ֗ר (veyashar) 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.21.29.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Prov.21.29.W5.S1) and character.