Jeremiah 14:2:6Jer.14.2.W6TAB
לָאָ֑רֶץ
larets
“to the ground or to the earth”
- Transliteration
- la-RETS
- Extended
- laa-AH-rehts
- IPA
- /laːˈʔaː.rɛts/
Meaning by language
- English
- to the ground or to the earth
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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The word
Word in context
- word
la-RETS
- phraseyour reading level
kad-RU la-RETS
- clause
av-le-LA ye-hu-DA u-she-a-RE-ha um-le-LU kad-RU la-RETS
- sentence
av-le-LA ye-hu-DA u-she-a-RE-ha um-le-LU kad-RU la-RETS ve-tsi-ve-KHAT ye-ru-sha-LIM a-la-TA
Exegesis
The verbs umlilu {אֻמְלְל֖וּ | ʾumləlû} ‘they languish’ and qadru {קָדְר֣וּ | qāḏrû} ‘they became dark’ depict physical and emotional decline, with la-arets {לָאָ֑רֶץ | lā-ʾāreṣ} ‘to the ground’ specifying the depth of the descent.
In context — Jeremiah 14:2
Judah mourns, and her gates droop; her people sink down in darkness to the ground, and Jerusalem’s cry rises.
About this coordinate
Jeremiah 14:2:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Jeremiah 14:2, so the Hebrew word לָאָ֑רֶץ (larets) 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 Jer.14.2.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Jer.14.2.W6.S1) and character.