Ezekiel 20:17:3Ezek.20.17.W3TAB
עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם
alehem
“upon them”
- Transliteration
- a-le-HEM
- Extended
- ah-leh-HEHM
- IPA
- /ʕăleːˈhɛm/
Meaning by language
- English
- upon them
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
a-le-HEM
- clause
va-ta-KHAS e-NI a-le-HEM mish-kha-TAM
- sentence
va-ta-KHAS e-NI a-le-HEM mish-kha-TAM ve-LO-a-SI-ti o-TAM ka-LA ba-mid-BAR
Exegesis
The idiom eini alehem {עֵינִי עֲלֵיהֶם | ʿê-nî ʿă-lê-hem} ‘my eye upon them’ conveys watchful favor.
In context — Ezekiel 20:17
But I had compassion—my eye spared them—from destroying them, and I did not make them perish in the wilderness .
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 20:17:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Ezekiel 20:17, so the Hebrew word עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם (alehem) 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.20.17.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.20.17.W3.S1) and character.