Judges 13:23:10Judg.13.23.W10TAB
עֹלָ֣ה
ola
“a burnt offering”
- Transliteration
- o-LA
- Extended
- oh-LAA
- IPA
- /ʕoːˈlaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- a burnt offering
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
o-LA
- phraseyour reading level
o-LA u-min-KHA
- clause
va-to-MER LO ish-TO LU kha-FETS Ye-ho-VAH la-ha-mi-TE-nu lo-la-KAKH mi-ya-DE-nu o-LA u-min-KHA ve-LO he-re-NU et-kol-E-le
- sentence
va-to-MER LO ish-TO LU kha-FETS Ye-ho-VAH la-ha-mi-TE-nu lo-la-KAKH mi-ya-DE-nu o-LA u-min-KHA ve-LO he-re-NU et-kol-E-le ve-kha-ET LO hish-mi-A-nu ka-ZOT
Exegesis
The sacrificial terms olah {עֹלָה | ʿō-lā} and minchah {מִנְחָה | min-ḥā} are subordinated under the negated perfect lo-lakakh {לֹא־לָקַח | lō-lā-qāḥ} “did not take,” underscoring divine restraint.
Root and etymology
Rootʿ-l-h
“to ascend”
In context — Judges 13:23
And his wife said to him, “If the LORD had desired to kill us, He would not have taken a burnt offering and a grain offering from our hand, nor would He have shown us all these things, nor at this time have caused us to hear such things.”
About this coordinate
Judges 13:23:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of Judges 13:23, so the Hebrew word עֹלָ֣ה (ola) 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.13.23.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.13.23.W10.S1) and character.