Genesis 8:14:6Gen.8.14.W6TAB
לַחֹ֑דֶשׁ
lakhodesh
“the month”
- Transliteration
- la-KHO-desh
- Extended
- lah-KHOH-dehsh
- IPA
- /la.ˈħoː.ðɛʃ/
Meaning by language
- English
- the month
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot |
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Word in context
- word
la-KHO-desh
- clause
u-va-KHO-desh ha-she-NI be-shiv-A ve-es-RIM YOM la-KHO-desh
- sentence
u-va-KHO-desh ha-she-NI be-shiv-A ve-es-RIM YOM la-KHO-desh yav-SHA ha-A-rets
Exegesis
The specific date be-shivʿah ve-esrim yom {בְּשִׁבְעָ֧ה וְעֶשְׂרִ֛ים י֖וֹם | bə-šiḇ-ʿā(h) wə-ʿeś-rîm yôm} ‘on the twenty-seventh day’ follows the Hebrew units-before-tens numeral order, and la-khodesh {לַחֹ֑דֶשׁ | la-ḥō-ḏeš} ‘of the month’ serves as a genitive complement.
Root and etymology
ḥ-d-šhet–dalet–shin
“newness, month”
In context — Genesis 8:14
Then, in the second month , on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had become dry.
About this coordinate
Genesis 8:14:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Genesis 8:14, so the Hebrew word לַחֹ֑דֶשׁ (lakhodesh) 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.8.14.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.8.14.W6.S1) and character.