Proverbs 30:19:10Prov.30.19.W10TAB
וְדֶ֖רֶךְ
vederekh
“and way of”
- Transliteration
- ve-DE-rekh
- Extended
- veh-DEH-rehkh
- IPA
- /vəˈdɛ.rɛx/
Meaning by language
- English
- and way of
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-DE-rekh
- clause
ve-DE-rekh GE-ver be-AL-ma
- sentence
DE-rekh ha-NE-sher ba-sha-MA-yim DE-rekh na-KHASH a-LE TSUR DE-rekh-o-NI-ya be-LEV-YAM ve-DE-rekh GE-ver be-AL-ma
Exegesis
The third clause, derekh-oniyah be-lev-yam {דֶרֶךְ־אֳנִיָּה בְּלֶב־יָם | dĕ-rĕ-ḵ-ʾŏ-nî-yā bĕ-leḇ-yām} ‘way-of ship in-heart-of sea’, and the final clause, ve-derekh gever be-almah {וְדֶרֶךְ גֶּבֶר בְּעַלְמָה | wĕ-dĕ-rĕ-ḵ gĕ-ber bĕ-ʿal-māh} ‘and-way man with young woman’, form a syntactic parallelism.
Root and etymology
d-r-kdalet–resh–kaf
“to tread, path”
In context — Proverbs 30:19
The way of the eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man with a young woman .
About this coordinate
Proverbs 30:19:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of Proverbs 30:19, so the Hebrew word וְדֶ֖רֶךְ (vederekh) 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.30.19.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (Prov.30.19.W10.S1) and character.