Deuteronomy 22:21:8Deut.22.21.W8TAB
כִּי עָשְׂתָה נְבָלָה
ki asta nevalah
“because she has done an outrageous thing”
- Transliteration
- ki as-TA ne-va-LAH
- Extended
- kee ahs-TAH neh-vah-LAH
- IPA
- /ki ʕasˈtaː nəvaˈlaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- because she has done an outrageous thing
Alphabet Analysis
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ki as-TA ne-va-LAH
- 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’.
Root and etymology
n-v-lnun–bet–lamed
“senselessness, moral folly”
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 22:21:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Deuteronomy 22:21, so the Hebrew word כִּי עָשְׂתָה נְבָלָה (ki asta nevalah) 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.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.22.21.W8.S1) and character.