Psalm 18:12:6Ps.18.12.W6TABWLC Psalms 18:13
וְגַ֥חֲלֵי־אֵֽשׁ׃
vegahaleiesh
“and coals of fire”
- Transliteration
- ve-ga-ha-LEI-ESH
- Extended
- veh-ga-hah-LEI-ESH
- IPA
- /vəɡaħaˈlej.ˈʔeːʃ/
Meaning by language
- English
- and coals of fire
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 | |
| Gimel | g as in good | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-ga-ha-LEI-ESH
- sentence
min-NO-gah NE-ge-do a-VA-v AV-ru BA-rad ve-ga-ha-LEI-ESH
Exegesis
The final pair, barad {בָּ֝רָ֗ד | bārāḏ} ‘hail’ and vegachalei-esh {וְגַחֲלֵי־אֵֽשׁ | wə-gaḥălê-ʾēš} ‘and coals of fire’, is coordinated and placed after the verb, producing a vivid, piled-on effect: destructive elements accompany (or follow from) the cloud-movement. A common alternative construal takes the hail and fiery coals as breaking out through the clouds; this is syntactically possible in poetry, but the straightforward reading keeps avav as the subject of avru, with the subsequent nouns presented as the storm’s attendant instruments.
Root and etymology
consonantsGimel–Chet–Lamed
“to glow (as coals)”
In context — Psalm 18:12
From the brightness before Him, His clouds passed on—hail and coals of fire.
About this coordinate
Psalm 18:12:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Psalm 18:12, so the Hebrew word וְגַ֥חֲלֵי־אֵֽשׁ׃ (vegahaleiesh) 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 Ps.18.12.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Ps.18.12.W6.S1) and character.