Judges 13:11:4Judg.13.11.W4TAB
אַחֲרֵ֣י
akhare
“after”
- Transliteration
- a-kha-RE
- Extended
- ah-khah-REE
- IPA
- /ʔa.ħaˈreː/
Meaning by language
- English
- after
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Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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Word in context
- word
a-kha-RE
- phraseyour reading level
a-kha-RE ish-TO
- clause
va-ya-KAM va-ye-LEKH ma-NO-akh a-kha-RE ish-TO
- 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 prepositional phrase acharei ishto {אַחֲרֵ֣י אִשְׁתּ֑וֹ | a-ḥă-rê ish-tō} ‘after his wife’ marks sequential movement.
Root and etymology
א־ח־ר
“after, behind”
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 13:11:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Judges 13:11, so the Hebrew word אַחֲרֵ֣י (akhare) 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.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.13.11.W4.S1) and character.