Deuteronomy 22:23:7Deut.22.23.W7TAB
וּמְצָאָהּ
umetsaah
“and finds her”
- Transliteration
- u-me-tsa-AH
- Extended
- oo-meh-tsa-AH
- IPA
- /u.mətsaˈʔa/
Meaning by language
- English
- and finds her
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Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
u-me-tsa-AH
- sentence
ki yih-YEH na-a-RA ve-tu-LA me-o-ra-SA le-ISH u-me-tsa-AH ISH ba-IR ve-sha-KHAV im-MAH
Exegesis
A second man (ish {אִישׁ | ʾîš} ‘man’) then performs a sequence of actions linked by “and”: umetzaah {וּמְצָאָהּ | üməṣā’āh} ‘and finds her’, veshachav {וְשָׁכַב | wəšākāv} ‘and lies’, completed by the prepositional phrase immah {עִמָּהּ | ʿimmāh} ‘with her’.
Root and etymology
m-ṣ-ʾmem–ṣade–aleph
“to find, discover”
In context — Deuteronomy 22:23
If there is a young woman, a virgin , who is betrothed to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her;
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 22:23:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Deuteronomy 22:23, so the Hebrew word וּמְצָאָהּ (umetsaah) 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.22.23.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.22.23.W7.S1) and character.