Exodus 21:18:11Exod.21.18.W11TAB
לְמִשְׁכָּֽב׃
lemishkav
“to bed”
- Transliteration
- le-mish-KAV
- Extended
- leh-mish-KAAV
- IPA
- /lə.miʃˈkaːv/
Meaning by language
- English
- to bed
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh |
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The word
Word in context
- word
le-mish-KAV
- phraseyour reading level
ve-na-FAL le-mish-KAV
- clause
ve-LO ya-MUT ve-na-FAL le-mish-KAV
- sentence
ve-khee-ye-ree-VUN a-na-SHIM ve-hik-ka-EESH et-re-E-hu be-E-ven OH ve-eg-ROF ve-LO ya-MUT ve-na-FAL le-mish-KAV
Exegesis
The result clause venafal le-mishkav {וְנָפַל לְמִשְׁכָּב | wə-nā-pal lə-miš-kāv} ‘and he falls to bed’ uses a perfect verb + noun idiom to denote incapacitation. The sequential vav forms maintain aspectual flow from condition to outcome.
Root and etymology
Rootshin-kaf-bet
“to lie down”
In context — Exodus 21:18
And if men quarrel , and a man strikes his companion with a stone or with a fist, and he does not die but falls to bed .
About this coordinate
Exodus 21:18:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of Exodus 21:18, so the Hebrew word לְמִשְׁכָּֽב׃ (lemishkav) 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.21.18.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.21.18.W11.S1) and character.