Joshua 20:8:4Josh.20.8.W4TAB
מִזְרָ֔חָה
mizrakha
“eastward”
- Transliteration
- miz-RA-kha
- Extended
- miz-RAA-khah
- IPA
- /mizˈraːxa/
Meaning by language
- English
- eastward
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Zayin | z as in zero | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
miz-RA-kha
- clause
u-me-E-ver le-yar-DEN ye-ri-KHO miz-RA-kha nat-NU et-BE-tsr ba-mid-BAR ba-mi-SHOR mi-mat-TE re-u-VEN
- sentence
u-me-E-ver le-yar-DEN ye-ri-KHO miz-RA-kha nat-NU et-BE-tsr ba-mid-BAR ba-mi-SHOR mi-mat-TE re-u-VEN ve-et-RA-mot ba-gil-AD mi-mat-TE-GAD ve-et-go-LAN ba-ba-SHAN mi-mat-TE me-na-SHEH
Exegesis
It then specifies the location with the phrase leyarden yeriḥo mizraḥah {לְיַרְדֵּ֤ן יְרִיחוֹ֙ מִזְרָ֔חָה | lə-yǎr-dēn ye-rī-ḥō mz-ra-ḥā} ‘to the Jordan east of Jericho’.
In context — Joshua 20:8
And on the other side of the Jordan east of Jericho, they designated Bezer in the wilderness , in the plain, from the tribe of Reuben; and Ramoth in Gilead, from the tribe of Gad; and Golan in Bashan, from the tribe of Manasseh.
About this coordinate
Joshua 20:8:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Joshua 20:8, 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.20.8.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.20.8.W4.S1) and character.