Genesis 17:12:14Gen.17.12.W14TAB

מִֽזַּרְעֲךָ֖

mizarakha

of your offspring

Transliteration
mi-zar-a-KHA
Extended
mih-zar-ah-KHAA
IPA
/miz.zar.ʕă.ˈxaː/

Meaning by language

English
of your offspring

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Result
מִֽ + זַּרְ + עֲ + ךָ֖
mi + zar + a + kha
mizarakha

Alphabet Analysis

Memm as in mother
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Zayinz as in zero
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Reshr guttural, like the French r
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Ayindeep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal
Hateph Patachreduced 'ah'
Kaf Sofitfinal form of Kaf — at word end
Qametslong 'ah'

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Word in context

  1. word

    mi-zar-a-KHA

  2. phraseyour reading level

    LO mi-zar-a-KHA

  3. clause

    ye-LID BA-yit u-mik-nat-KE-sef mi-KOL ben-ne-KHAR a-SHER LO mi-zar-a-KHA HU

  4. sentence

    u-ven-she-mo-NAT ya-MIM yim-MOL la-KHEM kol-za-KHAR le-do-ro-tei-KHEM ye-LID BA-yit u-mik-nat-KE-sef mi-KOL ben-ne-KHAR a-SHER LO mi-zar-a-KHA HU

Exegesis

The phrase mikol ben-nechar {מִכֹּל בֶּן־נֵכָר | mi-kōl ben-nê-ḵār} ‘from every son of a foreigner’ plus the relative clause asher lo mizzar'akha hu {אֲשֶׁר לֹא מִזַּרְעֲךָ הֽוּא | ʾă-šer lō miz-zar-ʿă-ḵā hû} ‘who is not from your descendants’ narrows inclusion to non-native members. English rendering distributes modifiers into clear temporal, causal, and relative clauses to preserve the detailed legal scope while maintaining readability.

Root and etymology

z-r-ʿZayin–Resh–Ayin

seed, offspring

In contextGenesis 17:12

Every male among you must be circumcised when he is eight days old, throughout your generations—whether he is born in the household or bought with money from a foreigner who is not of your descendants .

About this coordinate

Genesis 17:12:14 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 14 of Genesis 17:12, so the Hebrew word מִֽזַּרְעֲךָ֖ (mizarakha) 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.17.12.W14, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.17.12.W14.S1) and character.