Joshua 19:50:12Josh.19.50.W12TAB
אֶת־הָעִ֖יר
ethair
“the city”
- Transliteration
- et-ha-IR
- Extended
- EET-hah-EER
- IPA
- /ʔeːt.haˈʕiːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- the city
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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Word in context
- word
et-ha-IR
- phraseyour reading level
va-yiv-NEH et-ha-IR
- clause
va-yiv-NEH et-ha-IR va-ye-SHEV BAH
- sentence
al-PI Ye-ho-VAH nat-NU LO et-ha-IR a-SHER sha-AL et-TIM-nat-SE-rakh be-HAR ef-RA-yim va-yiv-NEH et-ha-IR va-ye-SHEV BAH
Exegesis
The direct object marker et {אֶת | ʾet} marks the following noun ha-ir {הָעִיר | hā-ʾîr} ‘the city’ as object, and the relative clause introduced by asher {אֲשֶׁר | ʾăšer} ‘which’ specifies the action of sha’al {שָׁאַל | šā’āl} ‘he asked’.
The narrative sequence is indicated by the Vav-consecutive verbs va-yivneh {וַיִּבְנֶה | wayyiḇneh} ‘and he built’ and va-yeshev {וַיֵּשֶׁב | wayyešeḇ} ‘and he settled’, with each et {אֶת | ʾet} marking its object, preserving the Hebrew word order and emphasis on divine command and fulfillment through settlement.
Root and etymology
Rootʿ-y-r
“city”
In context — Joshua 19:50
According to the command of the LORD , they gave him the city he asked for, Timnath-Serah in the hill country of Ephraim, and he built the city and lived in it.
About this coordinate
Joshua 19:50:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Joshua 19:50, so the Hebrew word אֶת־הָעִ֖יר (ethair) 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.19.50.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.19.50.W12.S1) and character.