Genesis 16:3:15Gen.16.3.W15TAB
אֹתָ֛הּ
otah
“her”
- Transliteration
- o-TAH
- Extended
- oh-TAAH
- IPA
- /ʔoː.ˈθaːh/
Meaning by language
- English
- her
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Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
o-TAH
- phraseyour reading level
va-tit-TEN o-TAH
- clause
va-tit-TEN o-TAH le-av-RAM i-SHAH LO le-ish-SHA
- sentence
va-tik-KAKH sa-RAI e-shet-av-RAM et-ha-GAR ham-mits-RIT shif-kha-TAH mik-KETS E-ser sha-NIM le-SHE-vet av-RAM be-E-rets ke-na-AN va-tit-TEN o-TAH le-av-RAM i-SHAH LO le-ish-SHA
Exegesis
The second wayyiqtol resumes Sarai’s agency, with the pronominal otah {אֹתָ֛הּ | ʾō-ṯāh} and prepositional phrases le-Avram, ishah, lo, and le-ishah mapping out recipient, relational status, beneficiary, and purpose. In translation, the wayyiqtol verbs are rendered as simple past to preserve narrative thrust, the temporal clause is smoothed into “after…had passed” or “when…had been,” and the prepositional cluster is expressed as “handed…as a wife” to capture both legal and relational nuance.
In context — Genesis 16:3
So Sarai, Abram’s wife, after ten years had passed since Abram had settled in the land of Canaan, took Hagar the Egyptian, her maidservant , and gave her to Abram her husband as his wife .
About this coordinate
Genesis 16:3:15 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 15 of Genesis 16:3, so the Hebrew word אֹתָ֛הּ (otah) 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 Gen.16.3.W15, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.16.3.W15.S1) and character.