Joshua 15:18:4Josh.15.18.W4TAB
לִשְׁא֤וֹל
lishol
“to ask”
- Transliteration
- lish-OL
- Extended
- leesh-OHL
- IPA
- /liʃˈʔoːl/
Meaning by language
- English
- to ask
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Lamed | l as in law |
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The word
Word in context
- word
lish-OL
- phraseyour reading level
lish-OL me-ET a-vi-HA
- clause
va-ye-HI be-vo-AH va-te-si-TE-hu lish-OL me-ET a-vi-HA sa-DEH va-tits-NAKH me-AL ha-kha-MOR
- sentence
va-ye-HI be-vo-AH va-te-si-TE-hu lish-OL me-ET a-vi-HA sa-DEH va-tits-NAKH me-AL ha-kha-MOR va-YO-mer-LAH ka-LEV MAH-lakh
Exegesis
The Hifil imperfect vatesitehu {וַתְּסִיתֵ֙הוּ֙ | wāṯ-ṯə-sî-te-hû} ‘she urged him’ conveys intentional causation, and the infinitive lish’ol {לִשְׁאוֹל | li-šə-’ōl} ‘to ask’ expresses purpose.
In context — Joshua 15:18
And it happened that when she came, she prompted him to ask her father for a field. She dismounted from the donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?”
About this coordinate
Joshua 15:18:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Joshua 15:18, so the Hebrew word לִשְׁא֤וֹל (lishol) 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.15.18.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.15.18.W4.S1) and character.