Exodus 17:3:13Exod.17.3.W13TAB
לְהָמִ֥ית
lehamit
“to kill”
- Transliteration
- le-ha-MIT
- Extended
- leh-hah-MEET
- IPA
- /lə.ha.ˈmiːt/
Meaning by language
- English
- to kill
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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The word
Word in context
- word
le-ha-MIT
- phraseyour reading level
le-ha-MIT o-TI
- 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.
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 17:3:13 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 13 of Exodus 17:3, so the Hebrew word לְהָמִ֥ית (lehamit) 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.W13, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.17.3.W13.S1) and character.