Proverbs 22:24:6Prov.22.24.W6TAB
לֹ֣א
lo
“not”
- Transliteration
- LO
- Extended
- LOH
- IPA
- /ˈloːʔ/
Meaning by language
- English
- not
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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Word in context
- word
LO
- phraseyour reading level
LO ta-VO
- clause
ve-ET-ISH khe-MOT LO ta-VO
- sentence
al-ti-te-RA ET-BA-al AF ve-ET-ISH khe-MOT LO ta-VO
Exegesis
The second clause employs lōʾ tāḇōʾ {לֹא תָבוֹא | lōʾ tā-ḇōʾ} ‘not you go,’ creating parallel prohibitions. This syntactic parallelism, typical of Hebrew wisdom poetry, intensifies the caution against intimacy with the angry.
Root and etymology
Rootl-ʾ-k
“work, labor, occupation”
In context — Proverbs 22:24
Do not befriend a possessor of anger , and do not go with a man of wrath .
About this coordinate
Proverbs 22:24:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Proverbs 22:24, so the Hebrew word לֹ֣א (lo) 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.22.24.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Prov.22.24.W6.S1) and character.