Ezekiel 20:1:6Ezek.20.1.W6TAB
לַחֹ֔דֶשׁ
lakhodesh
“of the month”
- Transliteration
- la-KHO-desh
- Extended
- lah-KHOH-dehsh
- IPA
- /bɛʕaˈsor/
Meaning by language
- English
- of the month
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot |
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The word
Word in context
- word
la-KHO-desh
- phraseyour reading level
be-a-SOR la-KHO-desh
- clause
va-ye-HI ba-sha-NA ha-she-vi-IT ba-kha-mi-SHI be-a-SOR la-KHO-desh ba-U a-na-SHIM mi-zik-NE yis-ra-EL li-de-ROSH et-ye-ho-VAH
- sentence
va-ye-HI ba-sha-NA ha-she-vi-IT ba-kha-mi-SHI be-a-SOR la-KHO-desh ba-U a-na-SHIM mi-zik-NE yis-ra-EL li-de-ROSH et-ye-ho-VAH va-ye-SHVU le-fa-NAI
Exegesis
The dating formula ba-shanah hashvi’it {בַּשָּׁנָה הַשְּׁבִיעִית | ba-šā-nāh ha-šə-ḇî‘îṯ} ‘in the seventh year’ is followed by two temporal specifications: ba-chamishi la-chodesh {בַּחֲמִשִּׁי לַחֹדֶשׁ | ba-ḥa-mi-šî la-ḥō-désh} ‘in the fifth month’ and ba-asarah la-chodesh {בַּעֲשָׂרָה לַחֹדֶשׁ | ba-ʿă-sā-rāh la-ḥō-désh} ‘on the tenth of the month,’ which precisely locate the event.
Root and etymology
ל־ח־ו
“moist, fresh”
In context — Ezekiel 20:1
And it happened in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, that men from the elders of Israel came to seek the LORD , and they sat before me .
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 20:1:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Ezekiel 20:1, so the Hebrew word לַחֹ֔דֶשׁ (lakhodesh) 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 Ezek.20.1.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.20.1.W6.S1) and character.