Genesis 19:11:9Gen.19.11.W9TAB
לִמְצֹ֥א
limtso
“to find”
- Transliteration
- lim-TSO
- Extended
- lihm-TSOH
- IPA
- /lim.ˈtsoː/
Meaning by language
- English
- to find
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
lim-TSO
- phraseyour reading level
lim-TSO ha-PA-takh
- clause
va-yil-U lim-TSO ha-PA-takh
- sentence
ve-et-ha-a-na-SHIM a-sher-PE-takh ha-BA-yit hi-KU ba-sa-ne-ve-RIM mi-ka-TON ve-ad-ga-DOL va-yil-U lim-TSO ha-PA-takh
Exegesis
The vav-consecutive imperfect vayile’u {וַיִּלְא֖וּ | way-yil-ʾû} ‘they grew weary’ advances the narrative result, and the infinitive limtso {לִמְצֹא | lim-ṣōʾ} ‘to find’ functions as a complementary infinitive of result focusing on hapetakh {הַפָּֽתַח | hap-pā-taḥ} ‘entrance’.
In context — Genesis 19:11
And they struck the men at the entrance of the house with blindness, from the least to the greatest, so that they wore themselves out trying to find the entrance .
About this coordinate
Genesis 19:11:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Genesis 19:11, so the Hebrew word לִמְצֹ֥א (limtso) 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.19.11.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.19.11.W9.S1) and character.