Zechariah 13:3:14Zech.13.3.W14TAB

דִּבַּ֖רְתָּ

dibbarta

you spoke

Transliteration
dib-BAR-ta
Extended
dihb-BAHR-tah
IPA
/dibˈbartɑː/

Meaning by language

English
you spoke

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Result
דִּב + בַּ֖רְ + תָּ
dib + bar + ta
dibbarta

Alphabet Analysis

Daletd as in door
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Reshr guttural, like the French r
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Tavt as in top
Qametslong 'ah'

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Word in context

  1. word

    dib-BAR-ta

  2. phraseyour reading level

    SHE-ker dib-BAR-ta

  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 13:3:14 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 14 of Zechariah 13:3, so the Hebrew word דִּבַּ֖רְתָּ (dibbarta) 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.W14, which extends further down to each syllable (Zech.13.3.W14.S1) and character.