Isaiah 18:2:1Isa.18.2.W1TAB

הַשֹּׁלֵ֨חַ

hasholeakh

the one sending

Transliteration
ha-sho-LE-akh
Extended
hah-shoh-LEE-akh
IPA
/haʃ.ʃoːˈleː.aħ/

Meaning by language

English
the one sending

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
הַ + שֹּׁ + לֵ֨ + חַ
ha + sho + le + akh
hasholeakh

Alphabet Analysis

Heh as in house; silent at word end
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Lamedl as in law
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Chetch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch
Patachshort 'ah' as in father

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Word in context

  1. word

    ha-sho-LE-akh

  2. phraseyour reading level

    ha-sho-LE-akh ba-YAM

  3. clause

    ha-sho-LE-akh ba-YAM tsi-RIM u-vikh-LE-GO-me al-pe-NE-ma-YIM le-KHU mal-a-KHIM ka-LIM el-GOY me-mu-SHAKH u-mo-RAT el-AM no-RA min-HU va-ha-le-A

  4. sentence

    ha-sho-LE-akh ba-YAM tsi-RIM u-vikh-LE-GO-me al-pe-NE-ma-YIM le-KHU mal-a-KHIM ka-LIM el-GOY me-mu-SHAKH u-mo-RAT el-AM no-RA min-HU va-ha-le-A GOY kav-KAV u-me-vu-SA a-SHER-ba-ze-U ne-ha-RIM ar-TSO

Exegesis

The verse begins with the relative participle has-sholeach {הַשֹּׁלֵחַ | haš-šō-lē-aḥ} ‘sending’, which heads a relative clause modifying the land motif in verse 1.

In contextIsaiah 18:2

Which sends envoys by sea and in vessels of papyrus upon the surface of the waters, saying, “Go, swift messengers, to a nation drawn out and peeled, to a people awesome from its beginning onwards, a nation measured line by line and trampled, whose land the rivers divide.”

About this coordinate

Isaiah 18:2:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Isaiah 18:2, so the Hebrew word הַשֹּׁלֵ֨חַ (hasholeakh) 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.18.2.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Isa.18.2.W1.S1) and character.