Joshua 15:18:7Josh.15.18.W7TAB
וַתִּצְנַ֖ח
vatitsnakh
“and she got off”
- Transliteration
- va-tits-NAKH
- Extended
- vah-tits-NAKH
- IPA
- /vat.tsəˈnaħ/
Meaning by language
- English
- and she got off
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-tits-NAKH
- 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
A new action begins with the waw-consecutive in vatisnakh {וַתִּצְנַ֖ח | wāṯ-ṭiṣ-nāḥ} ‘she dismounted.’
Root and etymology
צ־נ־חts-n-ḥ
“to descend, alight”
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 15:18:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Joshua 15:18, so the Hebrew word וַתִּצְנַ֖ח (vatitsnakh) 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.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.15.18.W7.S1) and character.