Proverbs 29:2:7Prov.29.2.W7TAB
יֵאָ֥נַֽח
yeanakh
“groans”
- Transliteration
- ye-A-na-kh
- Extended
- yee-AH-nah-kh
- IPA
- /jeː.ʔaːˈnaħ/
Meaning by language
- English
- groans
Alphabet Analysis
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch |
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Word in context
- word
ye-A-na-kh
- phraseyour reading level
ye-A-na-kh AM
- clause
u-vim-SHOL ra-SHA ye-A-na-kh AM
- sentence
bir-VOT tsa-di-KIM yis-MA-kh ha-AM u-vim-SHOL ra-SHA ye-A-na-kh AM
Exegesis
The conjunction u-vimshōl rā-ša‘ {וּבִמְשֹׁל רָ֝שָׁ֗ע | u-bim-šōl rā-ša‘} introduces an adversative “but when a wicked person rules,” leading to yē-ʾānāḥ ʿām {יֵאָ֥נַֽח עָֽם | yē-’ā-naḥ ʿām} ‘the people groan’. The shift from plural ṣad-dî-qîm to singular rā-ša‘ heightens the antithetic parallelism characteristic of Hebrew wisdom poetry. The matching imperfect verbs yiś-maḥ and yē-’ā-naḥ mirror opposite communal emotional responses, and the infinitive constructs were rendered as temporal “when” clauses with the adversative preserved as “but” to maintain Hebrew contrast.
Root and etymology
’-n-ḥaleph–nun–chet
“to groan or sigh”
In context — Proverbs 29:2
When the righteous are many, the people rejoice; but when a wicked person rules, the people groan .
About this coordinate
Proverbs 29:2:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Proverbs 29:2, so the Hebrew word יֵאָ֥נַֽח (yeanakh) 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.29.2.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Prov.29.2.W7.S1) and character.