Genesis 19:31:12Gen.19.31.W12TAB
כָּל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃
kolhaarets
“all the earth”
- Transliteration
- kol-ha-A-rets
- Extended
- kohl-hah-AA-rets
- IPA
- /kɔl.haːˈʔaː.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
ve-ISH EIN ba-A-rets la-VO a-LEI-nu ke-DE-rekh kol-ha-A-rets
- sentence
va-TO-mer hab-be-khi-RA el-ha-tse-i-RA a-VI-nu za-KEN ve-ISH EIN ba-A-rets la-VO a-LEI-nu ke-DE-rekh kol-ha-A-rets
Exegesis
Finally, kederekh kol-haarets {כְּדֶרֶךְ כָּל־הָאָרֶץ | kə-de-reḵ kāl-hā-ʾā-reṣ} ‘according to the way of all the earth’ frames their plight against the universal pattern of human social practice.
In context — Genesis 19:31
Then the older said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the land to come to us according to the custom of all the earth.”
About this coordinate
Genesis 19:31:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Genesis 19:31, so the Hebrew word כָּל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃ (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.19.31.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.19.31.W12.S1) and character.