Deuteronomy 14:21:12Deut.14.21.W12TAB
עַ֤ם
am
“a people”
- Transliteration
- AM
- Extended
- AHM
- IPA
- /ʕam/
Meaning by language
- English
- a people
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
AM
- phraseyour reading level
KI AM ka-DOSH
- clause
LO to-akh-LU kol-ne-VE-lah la-GER a-SHER-bish-a-RE-kha tit-te-NE-na va-a-kha-LAH O ma-KHOR le-nokh-RI KI AM ka-DOSH a-TA la-Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HE-kha
- sentence
LO to-akh-LU kol-ne-VE-lah la-GER a-SHER-bish-a-RE-kha tit-te-NE-na va-a-kha-LAH O ma-KHOR le-nokh-RI KI AM ka-DOSH a-TA la-Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HE-kha LO-te-va-SHEL ge-DEE ba-kha-LEV im-MO
Exegesis
The conjunction kī {כִּי | kî} introduces the identity clause “for you are a holy people,” linking ʿam {עַם | ʿam} ‘people’ and qā·dôš {קָדוֹשׁ | qā·dôš} ‘holy’ to the pronoun ’attāh {אַתָּה | ’attāה}, while la-YHWH ’ĕlōheḵā {לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ | la·YHWH ’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā} grounds their covenant status.
In context — Deuteronomy 14:21
You must not eat any carcass ; you may give it to the sojourner in your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people set apart to the LORD your God . You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 14:21:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Deuteronomy 14:21, so the Hebrew word עַ֤ם (am) 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.14.21.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.14.21.W12.S1) and character.