Ezekiel 20:6:11Ezek.20.6.W11TAB
לָהֶ֗ם
lahem
“for them”
- Transliteration
- la-HEM
- Extended
- laa-HEHM
- IPA
- /laːˈhɛm/
Meaning by language
- English
- for them
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| 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
la-HEM
- phraseyour reading level
a-sher-TAR-ti la-HEM
- clause
el-E-rets a-sher-TAR-ti la-HEM za-VAT kha-LAV u-de-VASH tse-VI HI le-khol-ha-a-ra-TSOT
- sentence
ba-YOM ha-HU na-SA-ti ya-DI la-HEM le-ho-tsi-AM me-E-rets mits-ra-YIM el-E-rets a-sher-TAR-ti la-HEM za-VAT kha-LAV u-de-VASH tse-VI HI le-khol-ha-a-ra-TSOT
Exegesis
Origin (me’erets Mitsrayim {מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם | mē-’e-reṣ miṣ-rā-yim} ‘from the land of Egypt’) and destination (el-erets asher-tarti lahem {אֶל-אֶרֶץ אֲשֶׁר-תָּרְתִּי לָהֶם | ’el-’e-reṣ ’ă-šer-tār-tî lā-hem} ‘to the land which I had sought out for them’) are conveyed by paired prepositional phrases.
In context — Ezekiel 20:6
On that day I lifted My hand to them to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had sought out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, which is the beauty of all the lands.
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 20:6:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of Ezekiel 20:6, so the Hebrew word לָהֶ֗ם (lahem) 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.20.6.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.20.6.W11.S1) and character.