Exodus 18:1:11Exod.18.1.W11TAB
לְמֹשֶׁ֔ה
lemosheh
“for Moses”
- Transliteration
- le-mo-SHEH
- Extended
- leh-moh-SHEH
- IPA
- /lə.mo.ˈʃɛ/
Meaning by language
- English
- for Moses
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Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| 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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Word in context
- word
le-mo-SHEH
- clause
va-yish-MA yit-RO kho-HEN mid-YAN kho-TEN mo-SHEH ET kol-a-SHER a-SA e-lo-HIM le-mo-SHEH u-le-yis-ra-EL am-MO
- sentence
va-yish-MA yit-RO kho-HEN mid-YAN kho-TEN mo-SHEH ET kol-a-SHER a-SA e-lo-HIM le-mo-SHEH u-le-yis-ra-EL am-MO ki-ho-TSI Ye-ho-VAH ET-yis-ra-EL mim-mits-RA-yim
Exegesis
Two appositional phrases—kohen Midyan {כֹהֵן מִדְיָן | kō-hēn miḏ-yān} ‘priest of Midian’ and khoten Moshe {חֹתֵן מֹשֶׁה | ḥō-tēn mō-šeh} ‘father-in-law of Moses’—specify his religious and familial identity.
Root and etymology
Rootmem–shin–he
“to draw out”
In context — Exodus 18:1
And Jethro, the priest of Midian and Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had accomplished for Moses and for Israel his people—how the LORD had brought Israel out from Egypt.
About this coordinate
Exodus 18:1:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of Exodus 18:1, so the Hebrew word לְמֹשֶׁ֔ה (lemosheh) 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.18.1.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.18.1.W11.S1) and character.