Genesis 19:34:17Gen.19.34.W17TAB
זָֽרַע׃
zara
“offspring”
- Transliteration
- ZA-ra
- Extended
- ZAA-rah
- IPA
- /ˈzaː.raʕ/
Meaning by language
- English
- offspring
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Zayin | z as in zero | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ZA-ra
- clause
na-she-KEN-nu YA-yin gam-hal-LAI-la u-vo-I shikh-VI im-MO u-ne-khai-YE me-a-vi-NU ZA-ra
- sentence
va-ye-HI mim-ma-kho-RAT va-TO-mer ha-be-khi-RA el-ha-tse-i-RA hen-sha-KHAV-ti E-mesh et-a-VI na-she-KEN-nu YA-yin gam-hal-LAI-la u-vo-I shikh-VI im-MO u-ne-khai-YE me-a-vi-NU ZA-ra
Exegesis
The purpose clause unechaye me'avinu zera {וּנְחַיֶּה מֵאָבִינוּ זָרַע | û-nə-ḥay-yê mē-ʾā-vî-nû zā-raʿ} uses a Hifil imperfect to express the intention to “preserve offspring from our father.”
English renders the wayyiqtol with past narrative, the cohortative as a proposal, and the imperatives as commands, foregrounding zera {זָרַע | zā-raʿ} as the goal.
Root and etymology
z-r-ʿzayin–resh–ayin
“to sow, scatter seed”
In context — Genesis 19:34
And it happened on the next day that the older said to the younger, “Behold, I lay with my father last night. Let us make him drink wine also tonight, and you go in and lie with him, and we will preserve offspring from our father.”
About this coordinate
Genesis 19:34:17 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 17 of Genesis 19:34, so the Hebrew word זָֽרַע׃ (zara) 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.19.34.W17, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.19.34.W17.S1) and character.