Genesis 18:25:15Gen.18.25.W15TAB
כָּל־הָאָ֔רֶץ
kolhaarets
“all the earth”
- Transliteration
- kol-ha-A-rets
- Extended
- kohl-hah-AA-rets
- IPA
- /kɔl.haː.ˈʔaː.rɛts/
Meaning by language
- English
- all the earth
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| 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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The word
Word in context
- word
kol-ha-A-rets
- clause
kha-LI-la LAKH ha-sho-FET kol-ha-A-rets LO ya-a-SE mi-she-PAT
- sentence
kha-LI-la le-KHA me-a-SOT ka-da-VAR ha-ZEH le-ha-MIT tsa-DIK im-ra-SHA ve-ha-YA kha-tsa-DIK ka-ra-SHA kha-LI-la LAKH ha-sho-FET kol-ha-A-rets LO ya-a-SE mi-she-PAT
Exegesis
The repeated khalilah {חָלִ֣לָה | ḥā-lî-lāh} heightens the plea, leading into the interrogative ha-shofet kol ha’arets lo ya‘aseh mishpat {הֲשֹׁפֵט כָּל־הָאָ֔רֶץ לֹ֥א יַעֲשֶׂ֖ה מִשְׁפָּֽט | ha-šō-p̄ēṭ kāl hā-ʾā-reṣ lōʾ ya-ʿă-śeh miš-pāṭ} “Shall the Judge of all the earth not do justice?” This progression—from repudiation, to depiction of the wrong, to a climactic rhetorical question—preserves the Hebrew’s legal-theological weight and argumentative force.
Root and etymology
ʾ-r-tsaleph–resh–tsade
“land, earth”
In context — Genesis 18:25
Far be it from You to do this—to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous would be treated like the wicked. Far be it from You! Shall the Judge of all the earth not do justice ?
About this coordinate
Genesis 18:25:15 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 15 of Genesis 18:25, so the Hebrew word כָּל־הָאָ֔רֶץ (kolhaarets) 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.18.25.W15, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.18.25.W15.S1) and character.