Exodus 17:3:7Exod.17.3.W7TAB
עַל־מֹשֶׁ֑ה
almosheh
“against Moses”
- Transliteration
- al-mo-SHEH
- Extended
- ahl-moh-SHEH
- IPA
- /ʕal.mo.ˈʃɛ/
Meaning by language
- English
- against Moses
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
al-mo-SHEH
- clause
va-yits-MA SHAM ha-AM lam-MA-yim va-ya-LEN ha-AM al-mo-SHEH
- 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
Root and etymology
m-š-hmem–shin–he
“to draw out”
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 17:3:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Exodus 17:3, so the Hebrew word עַל־מֹשֶׁ֑ה (almosheh) 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.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.17.3.W7.S1) and character.