Judges 13:11:11Judg.13.11.W11TAB
הָאִ֛ישׁ
haish
“the man”
- Transliteration
- ha-ISH
- Extended
- haa-EESH
- IPA
- /haːˈʔiːʃ/
Meaning by language
- English
- the man
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ha-ISH
- phraseyour reading level
ha-a-TA ha-ISH
- clause
va-ya-VO el-ha-ISH va-yo-MER LO ha-a-TA ha-ISH a-sher-dib-BAR-ta el-ha-ish-SHA va-yo-MER a-NI
- sentence
va-ya-KAM va-ye-LEKH ma-NO-akh a-kha-RE ish-TO va-ya-VO el-ha-ISH va-yo-MER LO ha-a-TA ha-ISH a-sher-dib-BAR-ta el-ha-ish-SHA va-yo-MER a-NI
Exegesis
The interrogative ha’atta haish {הַאַתָּ֥ה הָאִ֛ישׁ | ha-ʾă-ttā hā-ʾîš} ‘are you the man’ introduces an identity question, refined by the relative clause asher dibbartā el-haishshah {אֲשֶׁר־דִּבַּ֥רְתָּ אֶל־הָאִשָּׁ֖ה | ʼă-šer-dib-bār-tā ʾel-ha-ʾiš-šāh} ‘who spoke to the woman’.
Root and etymology
Rootaleph–nun–shin
“man; mortal being”
In context — Judges 13:11
And Manoah got up and went after his wife, and he came to the man and said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to the woman?” And he said, “I am.”
About this coordinate
Judges 13:11:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of Judges 13:11, so the Hebrew word הָאִ֛ישׁ (haish) 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 Judg.13.11.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.13.11.W11.S1) and character.