Joshua 18:4:5Josh.18.4.W5TAB
לַשָּׁ֑בֶט
lashavet
“for each tribe”
- Transliteration
- la-sha-VET
- Extended
- lah-shaa-VEHT
- IPA
- /laʃˈʃavɛt/
Meaning by language
- English
- for each tribe
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tet | t — emphatic |
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The word
Word in context
- word
la-sha-VET
- clause
ha-VOO la-KHEM she-lo-SHA a-na-SHIM la-sha-VET
- sentence
ha-VOO la-KHEM she-lo-SHA a-na-SHIM la-sha-VET ve-esh-la-KHEM ve-ya-KU-mu ve-yit-hal-KHU va-A-RETs ve-yikh-te-VOO o-TAH le-FI na-cha-la-TAM ve-ya-VO-oo e-LAI
Exegesis
The numeral shelosha {שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה | šə-lō-šā} ‘three’ modifies anashim {אֲנָשִׁ֖ים | ʾă-nā-šîm} ‘men’, while the prepositional phrase lashevet {לַשָּׁ֑בֶט | la-šā-vêṯ} ‘for each tribe’ sets the selection scope.
Root and etymology
š-b-ṯshin–bet–tet
“clan, branch”
In context — Joshua 18:4
Appoint three men for each tribe , and I will send them; let them rise and traverse the land and record it according to their inheritance , then let them come to me.
About this coordinate
Joshua 18:4:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Joshua 18:4, so the Hebrew word לַשָּׁ֑בֶט (lashavet) 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.18.4.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.18.4.W5.S1) and character.