Psalm 18:28:1Ps.18.28.W1TABWLC Psalms 18:29
כִּ֤י־אַ֥תָּה
kiatta
“for you”
- Transliteration
- KI-a-TTA
- Extended
- KEE-ah-TTAH
- IPA
- /kiː–ʔaˈtːaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- for you
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Alphabet Analysis
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
KI-a-TTA
- phraseyour reading level
KI-a-TTA ta-Ir ne-RI ye-ho-VA e-lo-HAI ya-GGI-ah
- sentence
KI-a-TTA ta-Ir ne-RI ye-ho-VA e-lo-HAI ya-GGI-ah kha-she-KKI
Exegesis
The verse begins with the causal conjunction ki {כִּי־ | kî} ‘for’, followed by the emphatic pronoun atah {אַתָּה | ʾat-tā} ‘You’ before the Hiphil imperfect verbs tair {תָּאִיר | tāʾîr} ‘you will light’ and yaggîah {יַגִּיהַ | yaggî’āh} ‘will enlighten’, creating a chiastic parallelism.
In context — Psalm 18:28
For You will light my lamp ; the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
About this coordinate
Psalm 18:28:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Psalm 18:28, so the Hebrew word כִּ֤י־אַ֥תָּה (kiatta) 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.18.28.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Ps.18.28.W1.S1) and character.