Genesis 17:8:3Gen.17.8.W3TAB
וּלְזַרְעֲךָ֨
ulezarakha
“and to your offspring”
- Transliteration
- u-le-zar-a-KHA
- Extended
- oo-leh-zar-ah-KHAA
- IPA
- /uː.lə.zar.ʕă.ˈxaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and to your offspring
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Zayin | z as in zero | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' |
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The word
Word in context
- word
u-le-zar-a-KHA
- phraseyour reading level
u-le-zar-a-KHA a-kha-RE-kha
- clause
ve-na-tat-TI le-KHA u-le-zar-a-KHA a-kha-RE-kha ET E-rets me-gu-RE-kha ET kol-E-rets ke-na-AN la-a-khu-ZAT o-LAM
- sentence
ve-na-tat-TI le-KHA u-le-zar-a-KHA a-kha-RE-kha ET E-rets me-gu-RE-kha ET kol-E-rets ke-na-AN la-a-khu-ZAT o-LAM ve-ha-YI-ti la-HEM le-e-lo-HIM
Exegesis
The coordinated recipients lekha {לְךָ | lə-ḵā} ‘to you’ and ulezarakha {וּלְזַרְעֲךָ | û-lə-zar-ʿă-ḵā} ‘and to your descendants’ extend the grant to Abraham’s seed.
Root and etymology
z-r-ʿZayin–Resh–Ayin
“seed, offspring”
In context — Genesis 17:8
I will give to you and to your descendants after you the land where you live as a foreigner, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession , and I will be God to them.
About this coordinate
Genesis 17:8:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Genesis 17:8, so the Hebrew word וּלְזַרְעֲךָ֨ (ulezarakha) 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.17.8.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.17.8.W3.S1) and character.