Proverbs 28:24:6Prov.28.24.W6TAB
חָבֵ֥ר
khaver
“a companion”
- Transliteration
- kha-VER
- Extended
- khaa-VEHR
- IPA
- /ħaːˈveːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- a companion
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
kha-VER
- phraseyour reading level
kha-VER HU
- clause
kha-VER HU le-ISH mash-KHIT
- sentence
go-ZEL a-VIV ve-im-MO ve-o-MER EN-PA-sha kha-VER HU le-ISH mash-KHIT
Exegesis
In the apodosis chaver hu {חָבֵ֥ר ה֝֗וּא | ḥāvēr hū’} ‘he is a companion’, the pronoun hu emphasizes identity, and the prepositional phrase lish mashchit {לְאִ֣ישׁ מַשְׁחִֽית | lə’îš māšḥîṯ} ‘to a man destroying’ conveys moral association. The English translation renders Hebrew participles as relative clauses (“who robs,” “and claims”), converts the verbless clause into direct speech, and renders lamed + noun as “like a friend of” to express associative likeness.
In context — Proverbs 28:24
Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “There is no offense,” is a companion to a man who destroys .
About this coordinate
Proverbs 28:24:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Proverbs 28:24, so the Hebrew word חָבֵ֥ר (khaver) 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.28.24.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Prov.28.24.W6.S1) and character.