Deuteronomy 21:17:7Deut.21.17.W7TAB

פִּ֣י

pi

a portion

Transliteration
PI
Extended
PEE
IPA
/piː/

Meaning by language

English
a portion

Alphabet Analysis

Pep with dagesh; f without
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Yody as in yes; marks long ī

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Word in context

  1. word

    PI

  2. phraseyour reading level

    PI she-NA-yim

  3. clause

    KI et-ha-be-KHOR ben-ha-se-nu-AH ya-KIR la-TET LO PI she-NA-yim be-KHOL a-SHER-yim-ma-TSE LO

  4. sentence

    KI et-ha-be-KHOR ben-ha-se-nu-AH ya-KIR la-TET LO PI she-NA-yim be-KHOL a-SHER-yim-ma-TSE LO KI-HU re-shit O-no LO mish-PAT ha-be-kho-RAH

Exegesis

The noun phrase pi shenayim {פִּי שְׁנַיִם | pî shenayim} ‘mouth of two’ functions as an idiomatic expression for a double inheritance.

In contextDeuteronomy 21:17

But he must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved wife, by giving him a double portion of all that is found to him, for he is the beginning of his strength; to him belongs the right of the firstborn.

About this coordinate

Deuteronomy 21:17:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Deuteronomy 21:17, so the Hebrew word פִּ֣י (pi) 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.21.17.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.21.17.W7.S1) and character.