Deuteronomy 13:6:7Deut.13.6.W7TABWLC Deuteronomy 13:7

אוֹ־רֵעֲךָ֙

oreakha

or your friend

Transliteration
o-re-a-KHA
Extended
oh-reh-a-KHAH
IPA
/ʔoː.re.ʕaˈχaː/

Meaning by language

English
or your friend

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Result
אוֹ + רֵ + עֲ + ךָ֙
o + re + a + kha
oreakha

Alphabet Analysis

Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Reshr guttural, like the French r
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Ayindeep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal
Hateph Patachreduced 'ah'
Kaf Sofitfinal form of Kaf — at word end
Qametslong 'ah'

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Word in context

  1. word

    o-re-a-KHA

  2. clause

    ki-ya-si-TKHAF a-KHI-kha ben-i-MEKH-kha o-vin-KHA o-vit-KHA o-E-shet-KHEI-ke-kha o-re-a-KHA a-SHER ke-naf-SHE-kha ba-SE-ter le-MOR

  3. sentence

    ki-ya-si-TKHAF a-KHI-kha ben-i-MEKH-kha o-vin-KHA o-vit-KHA o-E-shet-KHEI-ke-kha o-re-a-KHA a-SHER ke-naf-SHE-kha ba-SE-ter le-MOR nel-KHA ve-na-av-DA e-lo-HIM a-SHER lo-ya-da-TA a-TA va-a-vo-TEI-kha me-o-LAM

Exegesis

The repeated disjunction o {אֹו | ʾō} emphasizes the range of close relatives.

Root and etymology

r-ʿresh-ayin

evil, badness

In contextDeuteronomy 13:6

If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is like your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods which you have not known, you nor your fathers .”

About this coordinate

Deuteronomy 13:6:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Deuteronomy 13:6, so the Hebrew word אוֹ־רֵעֲךָ֙ (oreakha) 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 Deut.13.6.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.13.6.W7.S1) and character.