Judges 14:15:18Judg.14.15.W18TAB
הֲלֹֽא׃
halo
“is it not?”
- Transliteration
- ha-LO
- Extended
- hah-LOH
- IPA
- /hăˈloː/
Meaning by language
- English
- is it not?
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Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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Word in context
- word
ha-LO
- clause
hal-ya-re-SHE-nu ke-ra-TEM la-NU ha-LO
- sentence
va-ye-HI ba-YOM ha-she-vi-I va-yo-me-RU le-E-shet-shim-SHON pa-TI et-i-SHEKH ve-yag-GED-la-NU et-ha-khi-DA pen-nis-ROF o-TAKH ve-et-BET a-VIKH ba-ESH hal-ya-re-SHE-nu ke-ra-TEM la-NU ha-LO
Exegesis
Finally, the interrogative halo {הֲלֹא | hă-lōʾ} plus the Hif‘il infinitive hal-yarshenu {הַלְיָרְשֵׁנוּ | hal-yār-šē-nû} ‘to impoverish us’ forms a rhetorical question, revealing the guests’ suspicion. The English rendering preserves Hebrew word order to maintain emphasis and causative nuance.
In context — Judges 14:15
And it came to pass on the seventh day that they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, and let him tell us the riddle , lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Is it not that you have called us here to impoverish us?”
About this coordinate
Judges 14:15:18 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 18 of Judges 14:15, so the Hebrew word הֲלֹֽא׃ (halo) 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.14.15.W18, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.14.15.W18.S1) and character.