Exodus 18:12:5Exod.18.12.W5TAB
עֹלָ֥ה
ohla
“a burnt offering”
- Transliteration
- oh-LA
- Extended
- oh-LAA
- IPA
- /ʕoˈlaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- a burnt offering
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
oh-LA
- phraseyour reading level
oh-LA oo-ze-va-KHIM
- clause
va-yik-KAKH yit-RO kho-TEN mo-SHE oh-LA oo-ze-va-KHIM leh-eh-lo-HIM
- sentence
va-yik-KAKH yit-RO kho-TEN mo-SHE oh-LA oo-ze-va-KHIM leh-eh-lo-HIM va-ya-VO a-ha-RON ve-KHOL zik-NEI yis-ra-EL le-eh-khol-LE-khem im-kho-TEN mo-SHE lif-NEI ha-eh-lo-HIM
Exegesis
The coordinated pair olah {עֹלָ֥ה | ʿōlāh} and zevachim {וּזְבָחִ֖ים | ûzəḇāḥîm} forms the offerings directed leelohim {לֵֽאלֹהִ֑ים | lēʾlōhîm} ‘to God’, marked by the preposition.
Root and etymology
Rootayin-lamed-he
“to go up, ascend”
In context — Exodus 18:12
And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, took a burnt offering and sacrifices to God , and Aaron came along with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with the father-in-law of Moses before God.
About this coordinate
Exodus 18:12:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Exodus 18:12, so the Hebrew word עֹלָ֥ה (ohla) 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.18.12.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.18.12.W5.S1) and character.