Deuteronomy 19:4:12Deut.19.4.W12TAB

לֹא־שֹׂנֵ֥א

losone

does not hate

Transliteration
lo-so-NE
Extended
LOH-soh-NEH
IPA
/loː.soˈne/

Meaning by language

English
does not hate

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
לֹא + שֹׂ + נֵ֥א
lo + so + ne
losone

Alphabet Analysis

Lamedl as in law
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Nunn as in new
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points

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Word in context

  1. word

    lo-so-NE

  2. phraseyour reading level

    lo-so-NE LO

  3. clause

    a-SHER ya-KEH et-re-EI-hu biv-LEE-DA-at ve-HU lo-so-NE LO mit-te-MOL shil-SHOM

  4. sentence

    ve-ZEH de-VAR ha-ro-TSE-akh a-SHER ya-NUS sha-MAH va-KHAI a-SHER ya-KEH et-re-EI-hu biv-LEE-DA-at ve-HU lo-so-NE LO mit-te-MOL shil-SHOM

Exegesis

The conjunction vehu lo sone lo mitmol shilshom {וְהוּא לֹא־שֹׂנֵ֥א ל֖וֹ מִתְּמֹ֥ל שִׁלְשֹֽׁם | wə-hūʾ lōʾ sō-nê lô mit-tə-mōl šil-šōm} clarifies the lack of prior animosity through parallel temporal expressions, which the English preserves to maintain legal precision.

Root and etymology

s-n-ʿsin–nun–ayin

to hate

In contextDeuteronomy 19:4

And this is the case concerning the manslayer who flees there and lives when he strikes his neighbor without knowledge , provided that he had not hated him from yesterday or the day before.

About this coordinate

Deuteronomy 19:4:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Deuteronomy 19:4, so the Hebrew word לֹא־שֹׂנֵ֥א (losone) 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.19.4.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.19.4.W12.S1) and character.