Proverbs 22:27:5Prov.22.27.W5TAB
מִ֝שְׁכָּבְךָ֗
mishekavekha
“your bed”
- Transliteration
- mi-she-ka-ve-KHA
- Extended
- mih-sheh-KAAV-veh-KHAH
- IPA
- /miʃkaːvˈxaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- your bed
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' |
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The word
Word in context
- word
mi-she-ka-ve-KHA
- phraseyour reading level
lam-MAH yik-KAKH mi-she-ka-ve-KHA
- clause
lam-MAH yik-KAKH mi-she-ka-ve-KHA mi-tach-TE-kha
- sentence
im-EIN-le-KHA le-shal-LEM lam-MAH yik-KAKH mi-she-ka-ve-KHA mi-tach-TE-kha
Exegesis
The interrogative lama {לָמָּה | lā-māh} ‘why’ introduces the apodosis, with yiqqáḥ {יִקַּח | yiqqáḥ} ‘should he take’ governing miškāḇḵā {מִשְׁכָּבְךָ | mīškāḇḵā} ‘your bed’ and the prepositional phrase mittaḥtêḵā {מִתַּחְתֶּיךָ | mittaḥtêḵā} ‘from under you.’ This conditional interrogative structure underscores the injustice of seizing a debtor’s basic necessity. English preserves the protasis ‘if’ and the rhetorical ‘why should…?’ while maintaining Hebrew emphasis and word order.
Root and etymology
Rootshin–kaf–bet
“to lie down, recline”
In context — Proverbs 22:27
If you have nothing with which to pay , why should he seize your bed from beneath you?
About this coordinate
Proverbs 22:27:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Proverbs 22:27, so the Hebrew word מִ֝שְׁכָּבְךָ֗ (mishekavekha) 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.22.27.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Prov.22.27.W5.S1) and character.