Proverbs 30:8:5Prov.30.8.W5TAB
רֵ֣אשׁ
resh
“poverty”
- Transliteration
- RESH
- Extended
- REESH
- IPA
- /ˈreːʃ/
Meaning by language
- English
- poverty
Alphabet Analysis
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot |
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The word
Word in context
- word
RESH
- phraseyour reading level
RESH va-O-sher AL-tit-TEN-LI
- clause
SHAV u-de-VAR-ka-ZAV har-KHEK mim-me-NI RESH va-O-sher AL-tit-TEN-LI
- sentence
SHAV u-de-VAR-ka-ZAV har-KHEK mim-me-NI RESH va-O-sher AL-tit-TEN-LI ha-te-ri-PE-NI LE-khem khu-KI
Exegesis
The negative imperfect al-titen-lî {אַל־תִּתֶּן־לִי | al tit-ten-lî} ‘do not give me’ governs the merism resh {רֵאשׁ | rē-ʾōš} ‘poverty’ and va-osher {וָעֹשֶׁר | wā-ʿōšer} ‘riches’, emphasized in English by the antithetic construction “neither…nor.”
Root and etymology
Rootresh–aleph–shin
“poverty”
In context — Proverbs 30:8
Remove from me emptiness and speech of lies; poverty and riches do not give to me; feed me with bread of my portion .
About this coordinate
Proverbs 30:8:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Proverbs 30:8, so the Hebrew word רֵ֣אשׁ (resh) 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.30.8.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Prov.30.8.W5.S1) and character.