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Genesis 49:4
🇮🇱 BIBLICAL HEBREW

📖 King James Version

Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

🔤 Interlinear Analysis — Hebrew (BDB)

# Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Translation Definition
1 פַּ֤חַז פַּ֫חַז H6349 HNcmsa פַּ֫חַז from פָּחַז; ebullition, i.e. froth (figuratively, lust): unstable.
2 כַּ/מַּ֨יִם֙ מָ֫יִם H4325 HRd/Ncmpa מָ֫יִם dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense); water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
3 אַל אַל H408 HTn אַל a negative particle (akin to לֹא); not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (Job 24:25) as a noun, nothing: nay, neither, + never, no, nor, not, nothing (worth), rather than.
4 תּוֹתַ֔ר יָתַר H3498 HVhj2ms יָתַר a primitive root; to jut over or exceed; by implication, to excel; (intransitively) to remain or be left; causatively, to leave, cause to abound, preserve: excel, leave (a remnant), left behind, too much, make plenteous, preserve, (be, let) remain(-der, -ing, - nant), reserve, residue, rest.
5 כִּ֥י כִּי H3588 HC כִּי a primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed: and, + (forasmuch, inasmuch, where-)as, assured(-ly), + but, certainly, doubtless, + else, even, + except, for, how, (because, in, so, than) that, + nevertheless, now, rightly, seeing, since, surely, then, therefore, + (al-)though, + till, truly, + until, when, whether, while, whom, yea, yet.
6 עָלִ֖יתָ עָלָה H5927 HVqp2ms עָלָה a primitive root; to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative (as follow): arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, + shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, X mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, + perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.
7 מִשְׁכְּבֵ֣י מִשְׁכָּב H4904 HNcmpc מִשְׁכָּב from שָׁכַב; a bed (figuratively, a bier); abstractly, sleep; by euphemism, carnal intercourse: bed((-chamber)), couch, lieth (lying) with.
8 אָבִ֑י/ךָ אָב H1 HNcmsc/Sp2ms אָב a primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application): chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
9 אָ֥ז אָז H227 HD אָז a demonstrative adverb; at that time or place; also as a conjunction, therefore: beginning, for, from, hitherto, now, of old, once, since, then, at which time, yet.
10 חִלַּ֖לְתָּ חָלַל H2490 HVpp2ms חָלַל a primitive root (compare חָלָה); properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an "opening wedge"); denom. (from חָלִיל) to play (the flute): begin (X men began), defile, X break, defile, X eat (as common things), X first, X gather the grape thereof, X take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.
11 יְצוּעִ֥/י יְצ֫וּעַ H3326 HNcmsc/Sp1cs יְצ֫וּעַ passive participle of יָצַע; spread, i.e. a bed; (architecture) an extension, i.e. wing or lean-to (a single story or collectively): -bed, chamber, couch.
12 עָלָֽה עָלָה H5927 HVqp3ms עָלָה a primitive root; to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative (as follow): arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, + shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, X mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, + perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.