Exodus 21:36:8Exod.21.36.W8TAB
שִׁלְשֹׁ֔ם
shilshom
“the day before yesterday”
- Transliteration
- shil-SHOM
- Extended
- shil-SHOHM
- IPA
- /ʃil.ˈʃoːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- the day before yesterday
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
shil-SHOM
- phraseyour reading level
mit-te-MOL shil-SHOM
- clause
O no-DA KI SHOR na-GAKH HU mit-te-MOL shil-SHOM ve-LO yish-me-RE-noo be-a-LAV
- sentence
O no-DA KI SHOR na-GAKH HU mit-te-MOL shil-SHOM ve-LO yish-me-RE-noo be-a-LAV sha-LEM ye-sha-LEM SHOR ta-KHAT ha-SHOR ve-ha-MET yih-YEH-lo
Exegesis
The temporal adverbial mittemol shilshom {מִתְּמוֹל שִׁלְשֹׁם | mittᵉ-mōl šil-šōm} ‘from yesterday the day before yesterday’ specifies the relevant prior days.
In context — Exodus 21:36
But if it is known that the bull was a habitual gorer from yesterday or the day before yesterday, and its owner did not guard it , he must pay bull for bull, and the dead animal will be his.
About this coordinate
Exodus 21:36:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Exodus 21:36, so the Hebrew word שִׁלְשֹׁ֔ם (shilshom) 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.21.36.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.21.36.W8.S1) and character.