Joshua 15:45:3Josh.15.45.W3TAB
וַחֲצֵרֶֽיהָ׃
vakhatsereha
“and its villages”
- Transliteration
- va-kha-tse-RE-ha
- Extended
- vah-khah-tseh-REH-hah
- IPA
- /vaħaṣeˈrehaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and its villages
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' |
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Word in context
- word
va-kha-tse-RE-ha
- sentence
ek-RON uv-no-TE-ha va-kha-tse-RE-ha
Exegesis
The verse presents a nominal series beginning with eqron {עֶקְר֥וֹן | ʿeq-rōn} ‘Ekron’, followed by two parallel construct chains u-v’noteyha {וּבְנֹתֶ֖יהָ | û-ḇə-nō-ṯē-hā} ‘and its daughters’ and va-chatserEyha {וַחֲצֵרֶֽיהָ | wā-ḥa-ṣê-rē-hā} ‘and its villages’. Each chain features a feminine plural construct noun plus a third person feminine singular pronominal suffix, all linked by the conjunctive vav to signal a hierarchical listing of the main city and its dependent settlements.
Root and etymology
ḥ-ṣ-r
“enclosure; courtyard”
In context — Joshua 15:45
Ekron and its daughter towns and its villages .
About this coordinate
Joshua 15:45:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Joshua 15:45, so the Hebrew word וַחֲצֵרֶֽיהָ׃ (vakhatsereha) 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.15.45.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.15.45.W3.S1) and character.