Proverbs 30:17:5Prov.30.17.W5TAB
לִֽיקֲּהַ֫ת־אֵ֥ם
likaatem
“obedience of a mother”
- Transliteration
- li-ka-AT-EM
- Extended
- lih-kah-AHT-EEM
- IPA
- /vətaːˈvuːz/
Meaning by language
- English
- obedience of a mother
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
li-ka-AT-EM
- clause
li-ka-AT-EM yik-e-RU-ha or-VEI-na-KHAL
- sentence
A-yin til-e-AG le-AV ve-ta-VUZ li-ka-AT-EM yik-e-RU-ha or-VEI-na-KHAL ve-yo-khe-LU-ha ve-NEI-na-SHER
Exegesis
The proverb centers on ayin {עַ֤יִן | ʿăyîn} ‘eye’ as the subject governing parallel Qal imperfect verbs tilʿāg {תִּֽלְעַ֣ג | tilʿāg} ‘mocks’ and wəṯāḇûz {וְתָב֢וּז | wəṯāḇûz} ‘despises’, each taking prepositional objects ləʾāḇ {לְאָב֮ | ləʾāḇ} ‘at a father’ and liqqāḥatʾēm {לִֽיקֲּהַ֫ת־אֵ֥ם | liqqāḥatʾēm} ‘to a mother’s reproof’, forming a chiastic parallelism.
Root and etymology
y-k-ḥ
“rebuke”
In context — Proverbs 30:17
The eye that mocks a father and despises to obey a mother is plucked out by ravens of the valley, and the young eagles will eat it.
About this coordinate
Proverbs 30:17:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Proverbs 30:17, so the Hebrew word לִֽיקֲּהַ֫ת־אֵ֥ם (likaatem) 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.30.17.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Prov.30.17.W5.S1) and character.