Deuteronomy 14:21:4Deut.14.21.W4TAB
לַגֵּ֨ר
lager
“to the sojourner”
- Transliteration
- la-GER
- Extended
- lah-GEHR
- IPA
- /laˈger/
Meaning by language
- English
- to the sojourner
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Gimel | g as in good | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
la-GER
- phraseyour reading level
la-GER a-SHER-bish-a-RE-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
A relative clause introduced by ’ašer {אֲשֶׁר | ’a·šer} ‘which’ and marked in bišʿāreḵā {בִּשְׁעָרֶיךָ | bi·šā·’ā·re·ḵā} ‘in your gates’ allows the ger {גֵּר | gēr} ‘resident alien’ to receive it.
Root and etymology
g-w-r
“sojourn”
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 14:21:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Deuteronomy 14:21, so the Hebrew word לַגֵּ֨ר (lager) 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.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.14.21.W4.S1) and character.