Proverbs 28:20:5Prov.28.20.W5TAB
לְ֝הַעֲשִׁ֗יר
lehashir
“to become rich”
- Transliteration
- le-ha-SHIR
- Extended
- leh-hah-sheeR
- IPA
- /ləhaʕaˈʃiːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- to become rich
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
le-ha-SHIR
- phraseyour reading level
ve-ATS le-ha-SHIR
- clause
ve-ATS le-ha-SHIR LO yi-NA-ke
- sentence
ISH e-mu-NOT rav-be-ra-KHOT ve-ATS le-ha-SHIR LO yi-NA-ke
Exegesis
The second clause begins with the contrastive conjunction vav before the participle ve-atz {וְאָ֥ץ | wə-ʾāṣ} ‘he who hastens,’ which governs the infinitive construct le-ha'ashir {לְ֝הַעֲשִׁ֗יר | lə-hăʿăšîr} ‘to become rich.’
Root and etymology
ע־ש־ר
“to be rich”
In context — Proverbs 28:20
A man of faithfulness will have abundant blessings, but he who hastens to become rich will not go unpunished .
About this coordinate
Proverbs 28:20:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Proverbs 28:20, so the Hebrew word לְ֝הַעֲשִׁ֗יר (lehashir) 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.28.20.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Prov.28.20.W5.S1) and character.