Exodus 23:13:8Exod.23.13.W8TAB
לֹ֣א
lo
“not”
- Transliteration
- LO
- Extended
- LOH
- IPA
- /ˈloː/
Meaning by language
- English
- not
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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Word in context
- word
LO
- phraseyour reading level
LO taz-KI-ru
- clause
ve-SHEM e-lo-HIM a-khe-RIM LO taz-KI-ru LO yi-sha-MA al-PI-kha
- sentence
u-ve-KHOL a-SHER-a-MAR-ti a-LE-khem ti-sha-ME-ru ve-SHEM e-lo-HIM a-khe-RIM LO taz-KI-ru LO yi-sha-MA al-PI-kha
Exegesis
The hiphil imperfect tazkîru {תַזְכִּירוּ | tazkîru} ‘you shall invoke’ and the niphal imperfect lōʾ yiššāmaʿ {לֹא יִשָּׁמַע | lōʾ yiššāmaʿ} ‘it shall not be heard’, with ʿal-pîḵā {עַל־פִּיךָ | ʿal-pîḵā} ‘on your mouth’, intensify the prohibition. The parallel double negative underscores exclusive loyalty and social separation from foreign cultic speech.
Root and etymology
š-l-ḥshin–lamed–het
“to send”
In context — Exodus 23:13
And in everything that I have spoken to you, you must guard against mentioning the names of other gods ; they must not be heard on your lips.
About this coordinate
Exodus 23:13:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Exodus 23:13, so the Hebrew word לֹ֣א (lo) 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.23.13.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.23.13.W8.S1) and character.