Genesis 19:28:10Gen.19.28.W10TAB
עָלָה֙
ala
“went up”
- Transliteration
- a-LA
- Extended
- ah-LAA
- IPA
- /ʕa.ˈlaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- went up
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
a-LA
- phraseyour reading level
ve-hin-NE a-LA
- clause
va-YAR ve-hin-NE a-LA ki-TOR ha-A-rets ke-ki-TOR ha-kiv-SHAN
- sentence
va-yash-KEF al-pe-NEI se-DOM va-a-mo-RA ve-al-kol-pe-NEI E-rets ha-ki-KAR va-YAR ve-hin-NE a-LA ki-TOR ha-A-rets ke-ki-TOR ha-kiv-SHAN
Exegesis
The verb-first construction ʿalah kitor haarets {עָלָה קִיטֹר הָאָרֶץ | ʿā-lāh qî-ṭōr hā-ʾā-reṣ} ‘went up smoke of the land’ accentuates the rising motion.
In context — Genesis 19:28
And he looked out over the surface of Sodom and Gomorrah and over all the surface of the land of the plain, and he saw—and behold—smoke was rising from the land like the smoke of a furnace.
About this coordinate
Genesis 19:28:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of Genesis 19:28, so the Hebrew word עָלָה֙ (ala) 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.19.28.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.19.28.W10.S1) and character.