Genesis 2:22:7Gen.2.22.W7TAB
לְאִשָּׁ֑ה
leishsha
“into a woman”
- Transliteration
- le-ish-SHA
- Extended
- leh-ish-SHAA
- IPA
- /lə.ʔiʃ.ˈʃaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- into a woman
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Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
le-ish-SHA
- clause
va-yi-VEN Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HIM et-ha-tse-LA a-sher-la-KAKH min-ha-a-DAM le-ish-SHA
- sentence
va-yi-VEN Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HIM et-ha-tse-LA a-sher-la-KAKH min-ha-a-DAM le-ish-SHA va-ye-vi-E-ha el-ha-a-DAM
Exegesis
The resultative infinitive prepositional phrase leishah {לְאִשָּׁ֑ה | lə-ʾiš-šāh} ‘into a woman’ indicates the outcome of the building action.
Root and etymology
Rootaleph–shin–heh
“woman, wife”
In context — Genesis 2:22
And the LORD God built the rib—which He had taken from the man—into a woman , and He brought her to the man.
About this coordinate
Genesis 2:22:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Genesis 2:22, so the Hebrew word לְאִשָּׁ֑ה (leishsha) 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.2.22.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.2.22.W7.S1) and character.