Ezekiel 20:18:8Ezek.20.18.W8TAB
אַל־תִּשְׁמֹ֑רוּ
altishmoru
“do not keep”
- Transliteration
- al-tish-MO-ru
- Extended
- ahl-tihsh-MOH-roo
- IPA
- /ʔal.tiʃˈmoːruː/
Meaning by language
- English
- do not keep
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
al-tish-MO-ru
- clause
va-O-MAR el-be-NE-hem ba-mid-BAR be-khu-KO-te a-VO-te-khem al-te-LE-khu ve-ET-mish-pe-TE-hem al-tish-MO-ru
- sentence
va-O-MAR el-be-NE-hem ba-mid-BAR be-khu-KO-te a-VO-te-khem al-te-LE-khu ve-ET-mish-pe-TE-hem al-tish-MO-ru u-ve-gil-lu-LE-hem al-tit-tam-MA-u
Exegesis
A tricolon of negative imperatives begins with al-telechu {אַל־תֵּלֵכוּ | ’al-tē-lē-kū} ‘do not walk,’ continues with al-tishmeru {אַל־תִּשְׁמְרוּ | ’al-tiš-mə-rū} ‘do not keep,’ and concludes with al-titammeu {אַל־תִּטַּמְּאוּ | ’al-tit-tam-mə-’û} ‘do not defile yourselves,’ each introduced by the prohibitive particle al {אַל | ’al}.
In context — Ezekiel 20:18
And I said to their children in the wilderness, “Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, and do not keep their ordinances, and do not defile yourselves with their idols.”
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 20:18:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Ezekiel 20:18, so the Hebrew word אַל־תִּשְׁמֹ֑רוּ (altishmoru) 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.20.18.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.20.18.W8.S1) and character.