Deuteronomy 22:21:10Deut.22.21.W10TAB

לִזְנוֹת

liznot

by whoring

Transliteration
liz-NOT
Extended
leez-NOHT
IPA
/lizˈnoːt/

Meaning by language

English
by whoring

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Result
לִזְ + נוֹת
liz + not
liznot

Alphabet Analysis

Lamedl as in law
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Zayinz as in zero
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Nunn as in new
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Tavt as in top

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Word in context

  1. word

    liz-NOT

  2. sentence

    ve-ho-tsi-U et-ha-na-a-RA had-DE-lat-BEIT-a-vi-HA u-se-ka-lu-HA a-na-SHEI i-RAH ba-a-va-NIM va-me-TA ki as-TA ne-va-LAH be-yis-ra-EL liz-NOT BEIT a-vi-HA u-vi-AR-ta ha-RA mi-kir-BE-kha

Exegesis

The conjunction kî {כִּֽי־ | kî} ‘because’ introduces the rationale linked to the infinitive li-znôt {לִזְנ֖וֹת | li-znôt} ‘to act as a prostitute’.

In contextDeuteronomy 22:21

And you shall bring out the young woman to the entrance of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones, and she shall die, because she has done a disgraceful act in Israel by acting as a prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

About this coordinate

Deuteronomy 22:21:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of Deuteronomy 22:21, so the Hebrew word לִזְנוֹת (liznot) 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.22.21.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.22.21.W10.S1) and character.