Joshua 15:5:12Josh.15.5.W12TAB
מִקְצֵ֖ה
miktseh
“from the edge”
- Transliteration
- mik-TSEH
- Extended
- meek-TSEH
- IPA
- /miqˈtse/
Meaning by language
- English
- from the edge
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| 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
mik-TSEH
- clause
u-gvuL lif-AT tsa-fo-NAH mil-SHON ha-YAM mik-TSEH ha-yar-DEN
- sentence
u-gvuL ked-MAH YAM ha-ME-lakh ad-ke-TSEH ha-yar-DEN u-gvuL lif-AT tsa-fo-NAH mil-SHON ha-YAM mik-TSEH ha-yar-DEN
Exegesis
The second clause mirrors this structure with the phrase lif'at tsfonah {לִפְאַ֤ת צָפ֙וֹנָה֙ | lifʾāṯ ṣāpōnāh} ‘to the side of the north’, the origin expression mil'shon ha-yam {מִלְּשׁ֣וֹן הַיָּ֔ם | milšôn hay-yām} ‘from the tongue of the sea’, and concludes with mi-k'tze ha-yarden {מִקְצֵ֖ה הַיַּרְדֵּֽן | miqqṣēh hay-yardēn} ‘from the edge of the Jordan’. This additive, vav-conjoined parallelism delineates tribal inheritance by cardinal directions and natural landmarks.
Root and etymology
q-ṣ-hqof–tsade–he
“edge, extremity”
In context — Joshua 15:5
And the eastern boundary was the Salt Sea up to the edge of the Jordan, and the northern border lay from the bay of the sea to the point where the Jordan ends.
About this coordinate
Joshua 15:5:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Joshua 15:5, so the Hebrew word מִקְצֵ֖ה (miktseh) 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.15.5.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.15.5.W12.S1) and character.