Isaiah 14:12:7Isa.14.12.W7TAB
לָאָ֔רֶץ
laarets
“to the earth”
- Transliteration
- la-A-rets
- Extended
- laa-AH-rehts
- IPA
- /laːˈʔaː.rɛts/
Meaning by language
- English
- to the earth
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| 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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Word in context
- word
la-A-rets
- phraseyour reading level
nig-DA-ta la-A-rets
- clause
nig-DA-ta la-A-rets kho-LESH al-GO-yim
- sentence
EKH na-FAL-ta mish-sha-MA-yim he-LEL ben-SHA-khar nig-DA-ta la-A-rets kho-LESH al-GO-yim
Exegesis
The Niphal perfect nigdata {נִגְדַּעְתָּ | niḡ-ḏaʿ-tā} ‘you have been cut down’ intensifies enforced humiliation, with la-aretz {לָאָרֶץ | lā-ʾā-reṣ} ‘to the earth’ indicating direction of descent.
Root and etymology
א־ר־ץ
“land, earth”
In context — Isaiah 14:12
How you have fallen from the heavens, O shining one , son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the earth, you who laid low the nations.
About this coordinate
Isaiah 14:12:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Isaiah 14:12, so the Hebrew word לָאָ֔רֶץ (laarets) 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 Isa.14.12.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Isa.14.12.W7.S1) and character.