Genesis 39:20:6Gen.39.20.W6TAB
אֶל־בֵּ֣ית
elbeit
“into the house of”
- Transliteration
- el-BEIT
- Extended
- ehl-BEET
- IPA
- /ʔel.ˈbeːθ/
Meaning by language
- English
- into the house of
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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Word in context
- word
el-BEIT
- phraseyour reading level
el-BEIT ha-SO-har
- clause
va-yik-KAKH a-do-NEI yo-SEF o-TO va-yit-te-NE-hu el-BEIT ha-SO-har me-KOM a-sher-a-si-REI ha-ME-lekh a-su-RIM
- sentence
va-yik-KAKH a-do-NEI yo-SEF o-TO va-yit-te-NE-hu el-BEIT ha-SO-har me-KOM a-sher-a-si-REI ha-ME-lekh a-su-RIM va-ye-hi-SHAM be-VEIT ha-SO-har
Exegesis
The prepositional phrase ʾel-beit hasohar {אֶל־בֵּית הַסֹּהַר | ʾel-bêt has-sō-har} literally ‘to the house of the prison’ uses the construct bêt ‘house of’ with hasohar ‘the prison’ to denote an institutional building, which is idiomatically rendered ‘the prison.’
Root and etymology
b-y-tbet–yod–tav
“house, dwelling”
In context — Genesis 39:20
And the master of Joseph took him and put him into the house of the prison , the place where the king’s prisoners were bound. And he was there in the house of the prison.
About this coordinate
Genesis 39:20:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Genesis 39:20, so the Hebrew word אֶל־בֵּ֣ית (elbeit) 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.39.20.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.39.20.W6.S1) and character.