Joshua 17:1:5Josh.17.1.W5TAB
כִּי־ה֖וּא
kihu
“because he”
- Transliteration
- ki-HU
- Extended
- kee-HOO
- IPA
- /kiˈhu/
Meaning by language
- English
- because he
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Alphabet Analysis
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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Word in context
- word
ki-HU
- clause
va-ye-HI ha-go-RAL le-ma-TEH me-na-SHEH ki-HU be-KHOR yo-SEF
- sentence
va-ye-HI ha-go-RAL le-ma-TEH me-na-SHEH ki-HU be-KHOR yo-SEF le-ma-KHIR be-KHOR me-na-SHEH a-VI ha-gil-AD KI HU ha-YA ISH mil-kha-MA va-ye-HI-LO ha-gil-AD ve-ha-ba-SHAN
Exegesis
The conjunction kihu {כִּי־הוּא | kî·hûˀ} ‘because he’ introduces the causal clause connecting entitlement to the primogeniture term bekhor yoseph {בְּכֹור יוֹסֵף | bə·ḵôr yō·sēph} ‘firstborn of Joseph’.
A second kihu {כִּי־הוּא | kî·hûˀ} ‘because he’ links the characterization ish milchamah {אִישׁ מִלְחָמָה | ’îš mil·ḥā·māh} ‘man of war’ to the resultant allotment phrase vayehi-lo hagilad vehabashan {וַיְהִי־לֹו הַגִּלְעָד וְהַבָּשָׁן | wə·yə·hî·lōw ha·gîl·’āḏ wə·ha·bā·šān} ‘and it became for him Gilead and Bashan’, forming a climactic legal statement with parallel place names.
In context — Joshua 17:1
Now the lot fell to the tribe of Manasseh because he was the firstborn of Joseph; and to Makir, the firstborn of Manasseh and father of Gilead—because he was a man of war—Gilead and Bashan were allotted.
About this coordinate
Joshua 17:1:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Joshua 17:1, so the Hebrew word כִּי־ה֖וּא (kihu) 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.17.1.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.17.1.W5.S1) and character.