Joshua 14:1:16Josh.14.1.W16TAB

לִבְנֵ֥י

livnei

for the sons of

Transliteration
li-vnei
Extended
lee-vNEH-ee
IPA
/livˈneː/

Meaning by language

English
for the sons of

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
לִ + בְנֵ֥י
li + vnei
livnei

Alphabet Analysis

Lamedl as in law
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Nunn as in new
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Yody as in yes; marks long ī

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Word in context

  1. word

    li-vnei

  2. phraseyour reading level

    li-vnei yis-ra-EL

  3. clause

    a-SHER ni-HA-lu o-TAM el-a-ZAR ha-ko-HEN vi-ye-ho-SHU-a bin-NUN ve-ra-SHEI a-VOT ha-mat-TOT li-vnei yis-ra-EL

  4. sentence

    ve-E-leh a-SHER-NA-ha-lu ve-NEI-YIS-ra-el be-E-retz ke-NA-an a-SHER ni-HA-lu o-TAM el-a-ZAR ha-ko-HEN vi-ye-ho-SHU-a bin-NUN ve-ra-SHEI a-VOT ha-mat-TOT li-vnei yis-ra-EL

Exegesis

The final dative phrase libnei Yisrael {לִבְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל | li-və-nê yis-rā-ʾēl} ‘for the sons of Israel’ specifies the beneficiaries of this allotment.

Root and etymology

l-b-blamed–bet–bet

heart, inner self

In contextJoshua 14:1

And these are the territories which the sons of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which were allotted to them by Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the ancestral tribes of the sons of Israel.

About this coordinate

Joshua 14:1:16 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 16 of Joshua 14:1, so the Hebrew word לִבְנֵ֥י (livnei) 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.14.1.W16, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.14.1.W16.S1) and character.