Joshua 15:21:4Josh.15.21.W4TAB
לְמַטֵּ֣ה
lematteh
“of the tribe”
- Transliteration
- le-mat-TEH
- Extended
- leh-mat-TEH
- IPA
- /ləmatˈteː/
Meaning by language
- English
- of the tribe
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
le-mat-TEH
- phraseyour reading level
le-mat-TEH ve-NEI-ye-hu-DA
- clause
va-yi-HYU he-a-RIM mik-TSE le-mat-TEH ve-NEI-ye-hu-DA el-gvuL e-DOM ba-NEG-bah
- sentence
va-yi-HYU he-a-RIM mik-TSE le-mat-TEH ve-NEI-ye-hu-DA el-gvuL e-DOM ba-NEG-bah kav-tse-EL ve-E-der ve-ya-GUR
Exegesis
The construct chain miketzeh lamed + matteh bnei Yehudah {מִקְצֵה לְמַטֵּה בְנֵי־יְהוּדָה | miq-ṣêh lə-maṭ-têh bə-nê Yehû-dāh} literally ‘from the end of the tribe of the sons of Judah’ defines geographic scope, with lamed as a genitive marker.
Root and etymology
n-ṭ-hnun–tav–heh
“branch, staff”
In context — Joshua 15:21
And these were the cities at the extremity of the territory of the tribe of the sons of Judah toward the border of Edom in the Negev : Kabtze'el , Eder, and Jagur.
About this coordinate
Joshua 15:21:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Joshua 15:21, so the Hebrew word לְמַטֵּ֣ה (lematteh) 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.15.21.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.15.21.W4.S1) and character.