Joshua 13:14:7Josh.13.14.W7TAB
אִשֵּׁ֨י
ishei
“the offerings by fire”
- Transliteration
- i-SHEI
- Extended
- ee-SHEI
- IPA
- /ʔiˈʃeː/
Meaning by language
- English
- the offerings by fire
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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Word in context
- word
i-SHEI
- phraseyour reading level
i-SHEI Ye-ho-VAH
- clause
i-SHEI Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HEI yis-ra-EL HU na-kha-la-TO ka-a-SHER di-BER-LO
- sentence
RAK le-SHE-vet ha-LE-vi LO na-TAN na-kha-LA i-SHEI Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HEI yis-ra-EL HU na-kha-la-TO ka-a-SHER di-BER-LO
Exegesis
The construct isheiy YHWH Elohei Yisrael {אִשֵּׁי יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל | ’iş-šêy Yə-hō-wāh ’ĕ-lō-hê yiś-rā-’ēl} ‘fire-offerings of the LORD God of Israel’ functions as the predicate linked by the pronoun hu {הוּא | hūʼ} to the possessor nachalato {נַחֲלָת֔וֹ | na-ḥă-lā-ṯō} ‘his inheritance’.
Root and etymology
א־שׁ־ה
“burnt offerings”
In context — Joshua 13:14
To the tribe of Levi alone Moses gave no inheritance; instead, the fire-offerings of the LORD God of Israel are their inheritance, as He spoke to him.
About this coordinate
Joshua 13:14:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Joshua 13:14, so the Hebrew word אִשֵּׁ֨י (ishei) 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 Josh.13.14.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.13.14.W7.S1) and character.