Judges 14:3:13Judg.14.3.W13TAB
אִשָּׁ֔ה
isha
“a woman”
- Transliteration
- i-SHA
- Extended
- ih-SHAA
- IPA
- /ʔiʃˈʃaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- a woman
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
i-SHA
- phraseyour reading level
la-KHA-khat i-SHA
- clause
va-yo-MER LO a-VIV ve-i-MO ha-EN biv-NOT a-KHE-kha u-ve-KHOL-a-MI i-SHA ki-a-TA ho-LEKH la-KHA-khat i-SHA mi-pe-lish-TIM ha-a-re-LIM
- sentence
va-yo-MER LO a-VIV ve-i-MO ha-EN biv-NOT a-KHE-kha u-ve-KHOL-a-MI i-SHA ki-a-TA ho-LEKH la-KHA-khat i-SHA mi-pe-lish-TIM ha-a-re-LIM va-yo-MER shim-SHON el-a-VIV o-TA kakh-LI ki-hi yash-RA ve-e-NAI
Root and etymology
Rootaleph–shin–he
“woman, wife”
In context — Judges 14:3
And his father and his mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters of your brothers or among all my people that you must go and take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Take her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”
About this coordinate
Judges 14:3:13 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 13 of Judges 14:3, so the Hebrew word אִשָּׁ֔ה (isha) 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.14.3.W13, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.14.3.W13.S1) and character.