Exodus 17:3:11Exod.17.3.W11TAB
הֶעֱלִיתָ֣נוּ
heehlitanoo
“did you bring us up”
- Transliteration
- he-eh-li-TA-noo
- Extended
- heh-eh-lee-TAA-noo
- IPA
- /hɛ.ʕɛ.li.ˈtaː.nu/
Meaning by language
- English
- did you bring us up
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hateph Seghol | reduced 'eh' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
he-eh-li-TA-noo
- phraseyour reading level
he-eh-li-TA-noo mim-mits-RA-yim
- clause
va-YO-mer la-MAH ZEH he-eh-li-TA-noo mim-mits-RA-yim le-ha-MIT o-TI ve-et-ba-NAI ve-et-mik-NAI ba-tsa-MA
- sentence
va-yits-MA SHAM ha-AM lam-MA-yim va-ya-LEN ha-AM al-mo-SHEH va-YO-mer la-MAH ZEH he-eh-li-TA-noo mim-mits-RA-yim le-ha-MIT o-TI ve-et-ba-NAI ve-et-mik-NAI ba-tsa-MA
Exegesis
The Hiphil perfect he’elitanu {הֶעֱלִיתָנוּ | he-ʿĕ-lî-tā-nû} ‘you brought us up’ assigns deliberate agency, while the infinitive construct lehamit {לְהָמִ֥ית | lə-hā-mit} ‘to put to death’ expresses the lethal outcome attributed.
Root and etymology
ʿ-l-hayin–lamed–he
“to go up, bring up”
In context — Exodus 17:3
But the people were thirsty for water there, and they complained against Moses . They said, “Why did you bring us up from Egypt, to cause us and our children and our livestock to die from thirst ?”
About this coordinate
Exodus 17:3:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of Exodus 17:3, so the Hebrew word הֶעֱלִיתָ֣נוּ (heehlitanoo) 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 Exod.17.3.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.17.3.W11.S1) and character.