Exodus 21:5:9Exod.21.5.W9TAB
אֵצֵ֖א
etse
“I will go out”
- Transliteration
- e-TSE
- Extended
- eh-TSEH
- IPA
- /ʔeː.ˈtseː/
Meaning by language
- English
- I will go out
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Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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Word in context
- word
e-TSE
- phraseyour reading level
LO e-TSE
- clause
LO e-TSE khaf-SHI
- sentence
ve-im-a-MOR yo-MAR ha-E-ved a-hav-TI et-a-do-NI et-ish-TI ve-et-ba-NAI LO e-TSE khaf-SHI
Exegesis
The final clause lo etse {לֹא אֵצֵא | lō ʾē-ṣēʾ} ‘I will not go out’ with chofshi {חָפְשִׁי | ḥā-p̄ə-šī} ‘free’ expresses the servant’s deliberate refusal of emancipation, preserving the Hebrew’s protasis–apodosis structure to highlight voluntary loyalty over legal release.
In context — Exodus 21:5
But if the servant says, “I have loved my master, my wife, and my children, and I will not go out as a free man .”
About this coordinate
Exodus 21:5:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Exodus 21:5, so the Hebrew word אֵצֵ֖א (etse) 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.21.5.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.21.5.W9.S1) and character.