Isaiah 18:2:13Isa.18.2.W13TAB
נוֹרָ֖א
nora
“feared”
- Transliteration
- no-RA
- Extended
- noh-RAA
- IPA
- /noːˈraː/
Meaning by language
- English
- feared
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
no-RA
- phraseyour reading level
el-AM no-RA
- 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
- 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
Participial modifiers memushakh {מְמֻשָּׁךְ | mə-muš-šā-ḥ} ‘spread thinly’ and u-morat {וּמוֹרָט | ū-mō-rāṭ} ‘peeled’ describe the target nation, followed by the adjective nora {נוֹרָא | nôr-āʾ} ‘awesome’.
Root and etymology
n-w-rnun–waw–resh
“to inspire dread”
In context — Isaiah 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 18:2:13 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 13 of Isaiah 18:2, so the Hebrew word נוֹרָ֖א (nora) 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.W13, which extends further down to each syllable (Isa.18.2.W13.S1) and character.