Joshua 15:5:9Josh.15.5.W9TAB
צָפ֙וֹנָה֙
tsafonah
“northward”
- Transliteration
- tsa-fo-NAH
- Extended
- tsah-foh-NAH
- IPA
- /tsafˈoːna/
Meaning by language
- English
- northward
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
tsa-fo-NAH
- phraseyour reading level
lif-AT tsa-fo-NAH
- 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.
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 15:5:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Joshua 15:5, so the Hebrew word צָפ֙וֹנָה֙ (tsafonah) 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.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.15.5.W9.S1) and character.