Deuteronomy 14:21:16Deut.14.21.W16TAB
אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ
elohekha
“your God”
- Transliteration
- e-lo-HE-kha
- Extended
- eh-loh-HEH-khah
- IPA
- /ʔɛloˈheːxa/
Meaning by language
- English
- your God
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hateph Seghol | reduced 'eh' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' |
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Word in context
- word
e-lo-HE-kha
- 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 14:21:16 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 16 of Deuteronomy 14:21, so the Hebrew word אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ (elohekha) 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.W16, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.14.21.W16.S1) and character.