Joshua 21:43:6Josh.21.43.W6TAB
נִשְׁבַּ֖ע
nishba
“he had sworn”
- Transliteration
- nish-BA
- Extended
- nish-BAH
- IPA
- /niʃˈbaʕ/
Meaning by language
- English
- he had sworn
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal |
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The word
Word in context
- word
nish-BA
- phraseyour reading level
ET-kol-ha-A-retz a-SHER nish-BA
- clause
va-yi-TEN Ye-ho-VAH le-yis-ra-EL ET-kol-ha-A-retz a-SHER nish-BA la-TET la-a-vo-TAM
- sentence
va-yi-TEN Ye-ho-VAH le-yis-ra-EL ET-kol-ha-A-retz a-SHER nish-BA la-TET la-a-vo-TAM va-yi-ra-SHU-ha va-ye-SHVU BAH
Exegesis
The relative clause asher {אֲשֶׁר | ʾă-šer} ‘which’ introduces the oath nishba {נִשְׁבַּע | nišbaʿ} ‘he swore’ plus infinitive latet {לָתֵת | lāṯēt} ‘to give’, tightly linking promise and land.
Root and etymology
sh-b-‘shin–bet–ayin
“seven, oath”
In context — Joshua 21:43
And the LORD gave Israel all the land that He had sworn to give to their fathers, and they took it as their possession and lived in it.
About this coordinate
Joshua 21:43:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Joshua 21:43, so the Hebrew word נִשְׁבַּ֖ע (nishba) 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.21.43.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.21.43.W6.S1) and character.