Proverbs 3:16:5Prov.3.16.W5TAB
עֹ֣שֶׁר
osher
“riches”
- Transliteration
- O-sher
- Extended
- OH-shehr
- IPA
- /ˈʕoː.ʃɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- riches
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
O-sher
- phraseyour reading level
O-sher ve-kha-VOD
- clause
bi-se-mo-OH-lah O-sher ve-kha-VOD
- sentence
O-rekh ya-MIM bi-yi-mi-NAH bi-se-mo-OH-lah O-sher ve-kha-VOD
Exegesis
The second colon mirrors this structure with bi-səmōlāh {בִּשְׂמֹאולָהּ | bī-šə-mō-lāh} ‘in her left hand’ distributing the paired abstract nouns osher {עֹשֶׁר | ʿō-šer} ‘riches’ and kavod {כָבוֹד | kā-vōḏ} ‘honor’. The Hebrew’s lack of verbs requires supplying linking verbs in English to render the nominal clauses. The coordinating vav in ve-kavod is rendered as “and” to preserve the distributive parallelism.
Root and etymology
ע־שׁ־ר
“wealth, abundance”
In context — Proverbs 3:16
In her right hand is length of days; in her left hand are riches and honor .
About this coordinate
Proverbs 3:16:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Proverbs 3:16, so the Hebrew word עֹ֣שֶׁר (osher) 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.3.16.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Prov.3.16.W5.S1) and character.