Deuteronomy 22:21:13Deut.22.21.W13TAB
הָרָע מִקִּרְבֶּךָ׃
hara mikirbekha
“the evil from your midst”
- Transliteration
- ha-RA mi-kir-BE-kha
- Extended
- hah-RAH mee-keer-BEH-khah
- IPA
- /haːˈraː mikːirˈbekːa/
Meaning by language
- English
- the evil from your midst
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' |
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Word in context
- word
ha-RA mi-kir-BE-kha
- 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
Finally, the Piel perfect wə-viʿărtā {וּבִֽעַרְתָּ֥ | wə-vi-ʿăr-tā} ‘and you shall purge’ with the prepositional phrase miqqirbəkā {מִקִּרְבֶּֽךָ | mi-q-qir-bê-kā} ‘from your midst’ underscores communal purification. The English renditions maintain the Hebrew vav sequence while adapting to SVO order and clarifying purpose and result clauses.
Root and etymology
r-ʿresh–ayin
“bad, harmful”
In context — Deuteronomy 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 22:21:13 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 13 of Deuteronomy 22:21, so the Hebrew word הָרָע מִקִּרְבֶּךָ׃ (hara mikirbekha) 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.W13, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.22.21.W13.S1) and character.