Joshua 18:7:17Josh.18.7.W17TAB

מִזְרָ֔חָה

mizrakha

eastward

Transliteration
miz-ra-KHA
Extended
meez-rah-KHAH
IPA
/mizˈraħa/

Meaning by language

English
eastward

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
מִזְ + רָ֔ + חָה
miz + ra + kha
mizrakha

Alphabet Analysis

Memm as in mother
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Zayinz as in zero
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Reshr guttural, like the French r
Qametslong 'ah'
Chetch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch
Qametslong 'ah'
Heh as in house; silent at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    miz-ra-KHA

  2. clause

    ve-GAD u-re-u-VEN va-kha-TSI SHE-vet ham-na-SHEH lak-KHU na-kha-la-TAM me-E-ver la-yar-DEN miz-ra-KHA a-SHER na-TAN la-HEM mo-SHEH E-ved Ye-ho-VAH

  3. sentence

    KI EIN-KHE-lek lal-vi-YIM be-kir-be-KHEM KI-khe-hu-NAT Ye-ho-VAH na-kha-la-TO ve-GAD u-re-u-VEN va-kha-TSI SHE-vet ham-na-SHEH lak-KHU na-kha-la-TAM me-E-ver la-yar-DEN miz-ra-KHA a-SHER na-TAN la-HEM mo-SHEH E-ved Ye-ho-VAH

Exegesis

The waw-conjoined list (Gad, Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh) forms a new clause whose perfect verb laqechu {לָקְח֣וּ | lāqəḥû} ‘they took’ presents a completed allotment, further located by the stacked prepositional and directional expressions me-eber la-yarden mizrachah {מֵעֵבֶר לַיַּרְדֵּן מִזְרָחָה | mē-ʿēver layyardēn mizrāḥā} ‘beyond the Jordan, eastward’.

In contextJoshua 18:7

For there is no portion for the Levites among you, because the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance; and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh have taken their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave to them.

About this coordinate

Joshua 18:7:17 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 17 of Joshua 18:7, so the Hebrew word מִזְרָ֔חָה (mizrakha) 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.18.7.W17, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.18.7.W17.S1) and character.