Proverbs 7:13:2Prov.7.13.W2TAB
וְנָ֣שְׁקָה־לּ֑וֹ
venashkalo
“and she kissed him”
- Transliteration
- ve-NASH-ka-LO
- Extended
- veh-NAASH-kah-LOH
- IPA
- /vənɔːʃˈqaːlːoː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and she kissed him
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 | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-NASH-ka-LO
- clause
ve-he-khe-ZI-ka-BO ve-NASH-ka-LO
- sentence
ve-he-khe-ZI-ka-BO ve-NASH-ka-LO he-e-ZA fa-NE-ha va-TO-mar LO
Exegesis
The verse features a rapid sequence of feminine singular verbs linked by vav-consecutive: vehechezika {וְהֶחֱזִ֣יקָה־ | vĕ-hĕ-ḥě-zî-qā} ‘and she seized’, venashka {וְנָשְׁקָה־ | wĕ-nā-šə-qā} ‘and she kissed’, and heezah {הֵעֵזָה | hē-ʿê-zā} ‘she made bold’.
Each verb is followed by its object—bo {בּוֹ | bō} ‘him’ or paneha {פָנֶיהָ | pā-nê-hā} ‘her face’—culminating in the direct speech vattomar lo {וַתֹּאמַר לֽוֹ | wă-ṯō-ʾā-mar lō} ‘and she said to him’. The asyndetic coordination heightens dramatic tension from physical action to audacious speech, mirrored in the English by a shift from active verbs to descriptive phrase.
Root and etymology
Rootnun-shin-qof
“to kiss”
In context — Proverbs 7:13
Then she seized him and kissed him; with a brazen face she said to him.
About this coordinate
Proverbs 7:13:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Proverbs 7:13, so the Hebrew word וְנָ֣שְׁקָה־לּ֑וֹ (venashkalo) 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.7.13.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Prov.7.13.W2.S1) and character.