Joshua 20:5:17Josh.20.5.W17TAB
שִׁלְשֽׁוֹם׃
shilshom
“previously”
- Transliteration
- shil-SHOM
- Extended
- shil-SHOHM
- IPA
- /ʃilˈʃoːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- previously
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
shil-SHOM
- phraseyour reading level
mit-te-MOL shil-SHOM
- clause
KI biv-LI-DA-at hi-KA et-re-E-hu ve-LO-so-NE HU LO mit-te-MOL shil-SHOM
- sentence
ve-KHI yir-DOF go-EL ha-DAM a-kha-RAV ve-LO-yas-GI-ru et-ha-ro-TSE-akh be-ya-DO KI biv-LI-DA-at hi-KA et-re-E-hu ve-LO-so-NE HU LO mit-te-MOL shil-SHOM
Exegesis
The temporal idiom mittemol shilshom {מִתְּמ֥וֹל שִׁלְשֽׁוֹם | miṯ·tǝ·mōl šil·šōm} ‘from yesterday, the day before yesterday’ emphasizes the recency of the unintentional act. This structure preserves the interplay of condition, prohibition, causality, and temporality central to the statute.
In context — Joshua 20:5
If the avenger of blood pursues him, the elders must not hand over the slayer into his hands, because he struck his neighbor without knowledge and had not hated him previously.
About this coordinate
Joshua 20:5:17 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 17 of Joshua 20:5, so the Hebrew word שִׁלְשֽׁוֹם׃ (shilshom) 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.20.5.W17, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.20.5.W17.S1) and character.