Genesis 18:28:8Gen.18.28.W8TAB
אֶת־כָּל־הָעִ֑יר
etkolhair
“the whole city”
- Transliteration
- et-kol-ha-IR
- Extended
- eht-kohl-hah-EER
- IPA
- /ʔɛt.kɔl.haːˈʕiːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- the whole city
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| 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' | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
et-kol-ha-IR
- clause
u-LAI yakh-se-RUN kha-mi-SHIM ha-tsa-di-KIM kha-mi-SHA ha-tash-KHIT ba-kha-mi-SHA et-kol-ha-IR
- sentence
u-LAI yakh-se-RUN kha-mi-SHIM ha-tsa-di-KIM kha-mi-SHA ha-tash-KHIT ba-kha-mi-SHA et-kol-ha-IR va-yo-MER LO ash-KHIT im-em-TSA SHAM ar-ba-IM va-kha-mi-SHA
Exegesis
combined with the prepositional phrase bakhamishah {בַּחֲמִשָּׁה | ba-ḥă-miš-šāh} and the object phrase et kol haʿir {אֶת־כָּל־הָעִיר | ʾeṯ kol hā-ʿîr} yields the sense “Will You destroy all the city on account of five?”
Root and etymology
k-l-hkaf–lamed–heh
“to complete, finish, bring to an end”
In context — Genesis 18:28
“Perhaps five will be lacking from the fifty righteous . Will You destroy all the city for five?” And He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”
About this coordinate
Genesis 18:28:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Genesis 18:28, so the Hebrew word אֶת־כָּל־הָעִ֑יר (etkolhair) 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.18.28.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.18.28.W8.S1) and character.