Daniel 4:20:11Dan.4.20.W11TABWLC Daniel 4:17
לְכָל־אַרְעָֽא׃
lekholara
“to all the earth”
- Transliteration
- le-KHOL-ar-A
- Extended
- leh-KHOL-ar-AA
- IPA
- /ləχol.ʔarˈʕaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- to all the earth
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
le-KHOL-ar-A
- clause
veh-roo-MEH yim-TE lish-ma-YA va-kha-zo-TEH le-KHOL-ar-A
- sentence
EE-la-NA DEE kha-ZAI-ta DEE re-VA u-te-KIF veh-roo-MEH yim-TE lish-ma-YA va-kha-zo-TEH le-KHOL-ar-A
Exegesis
The final clause, waḥăzôtēh ləḵāl-ʾarʿā {וַחֲזוֹתֵהּ לְכָל־אַרְעָא | wa-ḥă-zō-tēh lə-ḵāl-ʾar-ʿā}, is structurally parallel: waḥăzôtēh ‘and its appearance’ is the subject, followed by the prepositional phrase ‘to all the earth,’ with an implied copular idea such as “was (visible) to.” This yields a balanced picture of the tree’s reach: vertical (to the heavens) and horizontal (throughout all the earth). In English, this implicit copula is made explicit (“was visible,” “was seen”) to convey the sense of the Aramaic nominal clause and to preserve the parallelism between the two dimensions of the tree’s greatness.
Root and etymology
ʾ-r-ʿAleph–Resh–Ayin
“earth, land”
In context — Daniel 4:20
The tree that you saw, which grew great and strong, whose height reached to the heavens , and whose appearance was visible to all the earth.
About this coordinate
Daniel 4:20:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of Daniel 4:20, so the Hebrew word לְכָל־אַרְעָֽא׃ (lekholara) 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 Dan.4.20.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (Dan.4.20.W11.S1) and character.