Judges 15:10:5Judg.15.10.W5TAB
עֲלִיתֶ֣ם
alitem
“have you come up”
- Transliteration
- a-li-TEM
- Extended
- ah-lee-TEM
- IPA
- /ʕăliːˈθɛm/
Meaning by language
- English
- have you come up
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Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
a-li-TEM
- phraseyour reading level
a-li-TEM a-LEI-nu
- clause
va-yo-me-RU ISH ye-hu-DA la-MA a-li-TEM a-LEI-nu
- sentence
va-yo-me-RU ISH ye-hu-DA la-MA a-li-TEM a-LEI-nu va-yo-me-RU le-e-SOR et-shim-sHON a-LI-nu la-a-SOT LO ka-a-SHER a-SA LA-nu
Exegesis
The perfect verb alitem {עֲלִיתֶם | ʿălîṯem} ‘you came up’ with aleinu {עָלֵינוּ | ʿālênû} ‘against us’ indicates hostile approach.
In context — Judges 15:10
And the men of Judah said, "Why have you come up against us?" They said, "We have come to bind Samson and to do to him just as he did to us."
About this coordinate
Judges 15:10:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Judges 15:10, so the Hebrew word עֲלִיתֶ֣ם (alitem) 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.15.10.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.15.10.W5.S1) and character.