Proverbs 24:34:1Prov.24.34.W1TAB
וּבָֽא־מִתְהַלֵּ֥ךְ
uvamitehalekh
“and comes walking”
- Transliteration
- u-VA-mi-te-ha-LEKH
- Extended
- oo-VAH-mih-teh-hah-LEKH
- IPA
- /uːˈvaː.mit.halˈleːx/
Meaning by language
- English
- and comes walking
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable |
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The word
Word in context
- word
u-VA-mi-te-ha-LEKH
- clause
u-VA-mi-te-ha-LEKH RE-she-kha
- sentence
u-VA-mi-te-ha-LEKH RE-she-kha u-ma-kh-so-RE-kha ke-ISH ma-GEN
Exegesis
The fronted imperfect uva {וּבָא | ū-vā} ‘and will come’ followed by the Hitpael participle mithallekh {מִתְהַלֵּךְ | miṯ-hallēḵ} ‘wandering’ personifies poverty as approaching imminently.
Root and etymology
h-l-kheh–lamed–kaph
“to walk, go about”
In context — Proverbs 24:34
And your poverty will come like a wanderer, and your lack, like an armed man .
About this coordinate
Proverbs 24:34:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Proverbs 24:34, so the Hebrew word וּבָֽא־מִתְהַלֵּ֥ךְ (uvamitehalekh) 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.24.34.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Prov.24.34.W1.S1) and character.