Zechariah 13:3:11Zech.13.3.W11TAB

תִֽחְיֶ֔ה

tikhye

you shall live

Transliteration
tikh-YE
Extended
tihkh-YEH
IPA
/tiħˈjeː/

Meaning by language

English
you shall live

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Result
תִֽחְ + יֶ֔ה
tikh + ye
tikhye

Alphabet Analysis

Tavt as in top
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Chetch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Segholshort 'eh' as in met
Heh as in house; silent at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    tikh-YE

  2. phraseyour reading level

    LO tikh-YE

  3. clause

    ve-ha-YA ki-yin-na-VE ISH OD ve-am-RU E-lav a-VIV ve-i-MO yol-DA-v LO tikh-YE KI SHE-ker dib-BAR-ta be-SHEM ye-ho-VAH

  4. sentence

    ve-ha-YA ki-yin-na-VE ISH OD ve-am-RU E-lav a-VIV ve-i-MO yol-DA-v LO tikh-YE KI SHE-ker dib-BAR-ta be-SHEM ye-ho-VAH u-de-ka-RU-hu a-vi-HU ve-i-MO yol-DA-v be-hin-na-VO

Exegesis

The main clause lōʾ tiḥyeh {לֹא תִּחְיֶה | lōʾ tiḥ-yeh} ‘you shall not live’ delivers the verdict, followed by the causal ki še-qer dibbārtā {כִּי שֶׁקֶר דִּבַּרְתָּ | kî še-qer dĭb-băr-tā} ‘for you have spoken falsehood’, with sheqer {שֶׁקֶר | še-qer} bearing the semantic weight of deception.

In contextZechariah 13:3

And it will come to pass, when anyone again prophesies, that his father and his mother who bore him shall say to him, “You shall not live, for you have spoken falsehood in the name of the LORD .” And his father and his mother who bore him shall pierce him through as he prophesies.

About this coordinate

Zechariah 13:3:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of Zechariah 13:3, so the Hebrew word תִֽחְיֶ֔ה (tikhye) 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 Zech.13.3.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (Zech.13.3.W11.S1) and character.