Proverbs 5:12:4Prov.5.12.W4TAB
מוּסָ֑ר
musar
“discipline”
- Transliteration
- mu-SAR
- Extended
- moo-SAR
- IPA
- /muːˈsaːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- discipline
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Samekh | s as in sit | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
mu-SAR
- phraseyour reading level
EKH sa-NE-ti mu-SAR
- clause
ve-a-MAR-ta EKH sa-NE-ti mu-SAR
- sentence
ve-a-MAR-ta EKH sa-NE-ti mu-SAR ve-to-KHA-khat NA-ats LI-bi
Exegesis
The perfect verbs saneiti {שָׂנֵאתִי | śā-nē-ʾtî} ‘I hated’ and na'ats {נָאַץ | nā-ʾaṣ} ‘I despised’ form a synonymous parallelism, each governing an object: first musar {מוּסָר | mû-sār} ‘discipline’, then tochachat {תוֹכַחַת | tô-ḵa-ḥat} ‘correction’.
Root and etymology
y-s-ryod–samekh–resh
“to chasten, discipline”
In context — Proverbs 5:12
And you will say, “How I hated discipline , and my heart despised correction !”
About this coordinate
Proverbs 5:12:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Proverbs 5:12, so the Hebrew word מוּסָ֑ר (musar) 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.5.12.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Prov.5.12.W4.S1) and character.