Deuteronomy 13:7:10Deut.13.7.W10TABWLC Deuteronomy 13:8
מִקְצֵה
miktse
“from the end”
- Transliteration
- mik-TSE
- Extended
- mik-TSEH
- IPA
- /mikˈtseː/
Meaning by language
- English
- from the end
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
mik-TSE
- sentence
me-e-lo-HEI ha-a-MIM a-SHER se-vi-vo-TEI-khem hak-ke-ro-VIM e-LEI-kha O ha-re-kho-KIM mim-KHA mik-TSE ha-A-retz ve-AD-k'TSE ha-A-retz
Exegesis
The distributive prepositional phrases mimkha ‘from you’, miqtzeh {מִקְצֵה | miq-ṣê} ‘edge’, and veadqetzeh ‘and to the edge of the land’ form an inclusio emphasizing totality. The English rendition preserves this balance by mirroring the participial structure and the “from…to…” inclusio.
Root and etymology
Rootqof-tsade-hey
“end, extremity”
In context — Deuteronomy 13:7
From the gods of the peoples that surround you—whether near to you or far from you, from one edge of the land to the other.
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 13:7:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of Deuteronomy 13:7, so the Hebrew word מִקְצֵה (miktse) 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.13.7.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.13.7.W10.S1) and character.