Deuteronomy 22:20:7Deut.22.20.W7TAB
לְנַעֲרָֽה׃
lenaara
“for the young woman”
- Transliteration
- le-na-a-RA
- Extended
- leh-na-a-RAH
- IPA
- /ləna.ʕaˈraː/
Meaning by language
- English
- for the young woman
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
le-na-a-RA
- clause
ha-ZEH LO-NIM-tse-U be-tu-LIM le-na-a-RA
- sentence
ve-IM-E-met hai-TA ha-da-VAR ha-ZEH LO-NIM-tse-U be-tu-LIM le-na-a-RA
Exegesis
The plural term betulim {בְתוּלִים | bə-tu-lîm} ‘tokens of virginity’ functions as the topic of evaluation, with the prepositional phrase la-na'arah {לַנַּעֲרָה | la-na-ʿa-rāh} ‘for the young woman’ identifying the subject of the inquiry. The translation renders the Hebrew VSO sequence into English SVO to preserve readability while maintaining the protasis–apodosis structure characteristic of Mosaic legal formulations.
Root and etymology
n-ʿ-rnun–ayin–resh
“youth, young person”
In context — Deuteronomy 22:20
But if this matter is true and the tokens of virginity are not found for the young woman ,
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 22:20:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Deuteronomy 22:20, so the Hebrew word לְנַעֲרָֽה׃ (lenaara) 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.22.20.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.22.20.W7.S1) and character.