Judges 14:3:22Judg.14.3.W22TAB
יָשְׁרָ֥ה
yashra
“is right”
- Transliteration
- yash-RA
- Extended
- yaash-RAA
- IPA
- /jaːʃˈraː/
Meaning by language
- English
- is right
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
yash-RA
- phraseyour reading level
yash-RA ve-e-NAI
- clause
va-yo-MER shim-SHON el-a-VIV o-TA kakh-LI ki-hi yash-RA ve-e-NAI
- 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
Exegesis
Samson’s reply introduces the imperative qaḥ-lî {קַֽח־לִ֔י | qaḥ-lî} ‘take for me’ and closes with the evaluative perfect yāšərâh {יָשְׁרָ֥ה | yāšərâh} ‘is right’ qualified by bə’ênāy {בְעֵינָֽי | bə’ênāy} ‘in my eyes’. The shift from Hebrew VSO in the question to SVO in the answer guides the English rendering from rhetorical inquiry to direct command.
Root and etymology
Rootyod–shin–resh
“to be straight, right, upright”
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 14:3:22 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 22 of Judges 14:3, so the Hebrew word יָשְׁרָ֥ה (yashra) 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.W22, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.14.3.W22.S1) and character.