Exodus 18:5:4Exod.18.5.W4TAB
מֹשֶׁ֛ה
mosheh
“Moses”
- Transliteration
- mo-SHEH
- Extended
- moh-SHEH
- IPA
- /moːˈʃɛ/
Meaning by language
- English
- Moses
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| 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
mo-SHEH
- phraseyour reading level
yit-RO kho-TEN mo-SHEH
- clause
va-ya-VO yit-RO kho-TEN mo-SHEH u-va-NAV ve-ish-TO el-mo-SHEH
- sentence
va-ya-VO yit-RO kho-TEN mo-SHEH u-va-NAV ve-ish-TO el-mo-SHEH el-ham-mid-BAR a-sher-HU kho-NEH SHAM HAR ha-e-lo-HIM
Exegesis
The subject is then specified as Yitro {יִתְרוֹ | yiṯ-rō} ‘Jethro’ with the appositional title khotēn {חֹתֵן | ḥō-tēn} ‘father-in-law’ of moshe {מֹשֶׁה | mō-šeh} ‘Moses’.
Root and etymology
Rootmem–shin–he
“to draw out”
In context — Exodus 18:5
And Jethro , the father-in-law of Moses, came with his sons and his wife to Moses, to the wilderness where he was encamping at the mountain of God .
About this coordinate
Exodus 18:5:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Exodus 18:5, so the Hebrew word מֹשֶׁ֛ה (mosheh) 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.18.5.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.18.5.W4.S1) and character.