Deuteronomy 22:24:16Deut.22.24.W16TAB
אֶת־אֵ֣שֶׁת
eteshet
“the wife of”
- Transliteration
- et-E-shet
- Extended
- EET-EH-shet
- IPA
- /ʔeːt.ˈʔeːʃɛt/
Meaning by language
- English
- the wife of
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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Word in context
- word
et-E-shet
- phraseyour reading level
et-E-shet re-E-hu
- clause
et-ha-na-a-RA al-de-VAR a-SHER lo-tsa-a-ka ba-IR ve-ha-ISH al-de-VAR a-SHER-i-NA et-E-shet re-E-hu u-vi-ar-TA ha-RA mi-kir-be-KHA
- sentence
ve-ho-tse-E-tem et-shne-HEM el-SHA-ar ha-IR u-se-kal-TEM-o-TAM ba-a-va-NIM va-ME-tu et-ha-na-a-RA al-de-VAR a-SHER lo-tsa-a-ka ba-IR ve-ha-ISH al-de-VAR a-SHER-i-NA et-E-shet re-E-hu u-vi-ar-TA ha-RA mi-kir-be-KHA
Exegesis
The direct object marker et {אֶת | ʾet} signals specificity.
Construct chains like eshet re’ehu {אֵשֶׁת רֵעֵהוּ | ʾê-šet ré-ʿê-hû} define relational ties. The paired clauses—‘the young woman on account of…’ and ‘the man on account of…’—highlight distinct bases for culpability through the prepositional phrase al devar ‘on account of the matter.’
Root and etymology
ʾ-š-taleph–shin–tav
“woman; wife”
In context — Deuteronomy 22:24
And you shall bring out the two of them to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones so that they die—the young woman on account of the matter that she did not cry out in the city, and the man on account of the matter that he violated the wife of his neighbor. And you shall purge the evil from your midst.
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 22:24:16 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 16 of Deuteronomy 22:24, so the Hebrew word אֶת־אֵ֣שֶׁת (eteshet) 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.22.24.W16, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.22.24.W16.S1) and character.