Joshua 15:16:10Josh.15.16.W10TAB
לְאִשָּֽׁה׃
leishha
“as wife”
- Transliteration
- le-ish-HA
- Extended
- leh-eesh-SHAH
- IPA
- /ləʔiʃˈʃaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- as wife
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
le-ish-HA
- clause
ve-na-TA-ti LO ET-akh-SA bit-TI le-ish-HA
- sentence
va-yo-MER ka-LEV a-SHER-ya-KEH ET-kir-YAT-SE-fer u-le-ka-DAH ve-na-TA-ti LO ET-akh-SA bit-TI le-ish-HA
Exegesis
This protasis precedes the apodosis venatatti {וְנָתַתִּי | wə-nā-ṯat-tî} ‘then I will give’, which introduces the reward clause lo et akhsah biti le-ishah {ל֛וֹ אֶת־עַכְסָה בִתִּי לְאִשָּׁה | lō ʾet-ʿă-ḵā-sāh bi-ṯî lə-ʾiš-šāh}. The waw-consecutive on vayomer and venatatti indicates narrative sequence.
Root and etymology
ʾ-sh-haleph–shin–heh
“woman, wife”
In context — Joshua 15:16
And Caleb said, “Whoever strikes Kiriath-Sepher and captures it, then I will give him Achsah my daughter as a wife.”
About this coordinate
Joshua 15:16:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of Joshua 15:16, so the Hebrew word לְאִשָּֽׁה׃ (leishha) 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.15.16.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.15.16.W10.S1) and character.