Ezekiel 20:6:9Ezek.20.6.W9TAB
אֶל־אֶ֜רֶץ
elerets
“to {a} land of”
- Transliteration
- el-E-rets
- Extended
- ehl-EH-rehts
- IPA
- /ʔɛl.ˈʔɛrɛts/
Meaning by language
- English
- to {a} land of
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tsade Sofit | final form of Tsade — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
el-E-rets
- 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 20:6:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Ezekiel 20:6, so the Hebrew word אֶל־אֶ֜רֶץ (elerets) 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.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.20.6.W9.S1) and character.