Joshua 21:15:2Josh.21.15.W2TAB
וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֔הָ
veetmigrasheha
“and its pasturelands”
- Transliteration
- ve-ET-mig-ra-SHE-ha
- Extended
- veh-EET-mig-rah-SHEH-hah
- IPA
- /vəʔetmiɡraˈʃɛha/
Meaning by language
- English
- and its pasturelands
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Gimel | g as in good | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-ET-mig-ra-SHE-ha
- sentence
ve-ET-KHO-lon ve-ET-mig-ra-SHE-ha ve-ET-de-VIR ve-ET-mig-ra-SHE-ha
Exegesis
This verse is a continuation of a larger allocation list and consists of four coordinated constituents, each introduced by ve'et {וְאֶת־ | wə-ʾeṯ} ‘and (object marker)’. Hebrew uses ʾet to mark definite direct objects, so English represents the sequence primarily through coordination (“and”) rather than a visible object marker.
Each city name is immediately paired with its attached land through the repeated noun with suffix, migrasheha {מִגְרָשֶׁהָ | mīḡrāšehā} ‘its pastureland’, creating a tight city-plus-commonland pattern. The repetition functions as list-parallelism, emphasizing that the grant includes both the urban settlement and the surrounding designated open area necessary for herds and livelihood.
Root and etymology
consonantsgimel–resh–shin
“to drive out”
In context — Joshua 21:15
Holon , with its pastureland, and Debir , with its pastureland.
About this coordinate
Joshua 21:15:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Joshua 21:15, so the Hebrew word וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֔הָ (veetmigrasheha) 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.21.15.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.21.15.W2.S1) and character.