Exodus 24:2:6Exod.24.2.W6TAB

לֹ֣א

lo

not

Transliteration
LO
Extended
LOH
IPA
/loː/

Meaning by language

English
not

Alphabet Analysis

Lamedl as in law
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points

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Word in context

  1. word

    LO

  2. phraseyour reading level

    LO yig-GA-shu ve-ha-AM

  3. sentence

    ve-nig-GASH mo-SHE le-vad-DO el-ye-ho-VAH ve-HEM LO yig-GA-shu ve-ha-AM LO ya-a-LU im-MO

Exegesis

Two parallel prohibitions follow: lo yiggashu {לֹא יִגָּשׁוּ | lō yiqqāšû} ‘shall not approach’ and lo yaʿălû {לֹא יַעֲלוּ | lō yaʿălû} ‘shall not go up’ with immo {עִמּוֹ | ʿimmô} ‘with him’. This syntactic parallelism contrasts Moses’ unique mediatorial role with the community’s exclusion.

In contextExodus 24:2

And Moses alone shall approach the LORD ; but they shall not approach and the people shall not go up with him.

About this coordinate

Exodus 24:2:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Exodus 24:2, 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.24.2.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.24.2.W6.S1) and character.