Deuteronomy 18:16:12Deut.18.16.W12TAB
לִשְׁמֹ֙עַ֙
lishmoa
“to hear”
- Transliteration
- lish-MO-a
- Extended
- leesh-MO-ah
- IPA
- /liʃˈmoːaʕ/
Meaning by language
- English
- to hear
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father |
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The word
Word in context
- word
lish-MO-a
- clause
LO o-SEF lish-MO-a et-KOL Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HAI ve-ET-ha-ESH ha-gdo-LAH ha-ZOT lo-er-EH OD ve-LO a-MUT
- sentence
ke-KOL a-SHER-sha-AL-ta me-IM Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HEI-kha be-KHO-rev be-YOM ha-ka-HAL le-MOR LO o-SEF lish-MO-a et-KOL Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HAI ve-ET-ha-ESH ha-gdo-LAH ha-ZOT lo-er-EH OD ve-LO a-MUT
Exegesis
The sequence lo osef lishmoa {לֹא אֹסֵף לִשְׁמֹעַ | lō ’ō-sēph liš-mō-‘a} ‘I will not continue to hear’ and lo-ereh ’od velo amut {לֹֽא־אֶרְאֶ֥ה ע֖וֹד וְלֹ֥א אָמֽוּת | lō-’er-eh ’ōḏ wə-lō ’ā-mūṯ} ‘I will not see again and not I will die’ uses iterative negation to heighten the fear of the divine voice and fire. The Hebrew structure is mirrored in English by maintaining clause sequence and relational particles.
Root and etymology
š-m-ʿshin–mem–ayin
“to hear, listen, obey”
In context — Deuteronomy 18:16
According to all that you asked from the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, “I will not continue to hear the voice of the LORD my God, nor will I see this great fire again, lest I die.”
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 18:16:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Deuteronomy 18:16, so the Hebrew word לִשְׁמֹ֙עַ֙ (lishmoa) 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.18.16.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.18.16.W12.S1) and character.