Judges 14:16:8Judg.14.16.W8TAB
אֲהַבְתָּ֔נִי
ahavtani
“you love me”
- Transliteration
- a-hav-TA-ni
- Extended
- ah-hahv-TAA-nih
- IPA
- /ʔăhavˈtaː.niː/
Meaning by language
- English
- you love me
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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Word in context
- word
a-hav-TA-ni
- phraseyour reading level
ve-LO a-hav-TA-ni
- clause
va-TEV-kh E-shet shim-SHON a-LAV va-TO-mer rak-se-NE-ta-ni ve-LO a-hav-TA-ni ha-khi-DA KHAD-ta liv-NE a-MI ve-LI LO hi-GAD-ta
- sentence
va-TEV-kh E-shet shim-SHON a-LAV va-TO-mer rak-se-NE-ta-ni ve-LO a-hav-TA-ni ha-khi-DA KHAD-ta liv-NE a-MI ve-LI LO hi-GAD-ta va-YO-mer LAH hi-NE le-a-VI u-le-i-MI LO hi-GAD-ti ve-LAKH a-GID
Exegesis
The intensifier rak {רַק־ | raq} ‘surely’ foregrounds the accusation snetani {שְׂנֵאתַנִי֙ | sǝnēʾaṯnî} ‘you hate me,’ balanced by velo ahavtani {וְלֹא אֲהַבְתָּנִי֔ | wǝlōʾ ʾăhavatānî} ‘and not you love me.’
Root and etymology
ʾ-h-baleph–he–bet
“to love”
In context — Judges 14:16
Then the wife of Samson wept before him and said, "Surely you hate me and do not love me. You have posed the riddle to the sons of my people, but you have not told me." He replied, "Look, I have not even told it to my father or my mother, so why should I tell you?"
About this coordinate
Judges 14:16:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Judges 14:16, so the Hebrew word אֲהַבְתָּ֔נִי (ahavtani) 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.14.16.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.14.16.W8.S1) and character.