Judges 15:11:16Judg.15.11.W16TAB
וּמַה־זֹּ֖את
umazot
“and what is this”
- Transliteration
- u-ma-ZOT
- Extended
- oo-mah-ZOHT
- IPA
- /uː.maːˈzoːt/
Meaning by language
- English
- and what is this
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Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Zayin | z as in zero | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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Word in context
- word
u-ma-ZOT
- clause
va-yer-DU she-lo-SHET a-la-FIM ISH mi-ye-hu-DA el-se-IF SE-la e-TAM va-yom-RU le-shim-SHON ha-LO ya-DAT-ta ki-mo-she-LIM BA-nu pe-lish-TIM u-ma-ZOT a-SI-ta LA-nu
- sentence
va-yer-DU she-lo-SHET a-la-FIM ISH mi-ye-hu-DA el-se-IF SE-la e-TAM va-yom-RU le-shim-SHON ha-LO ya-DAT-ta ki-mo-she-LIM BA-nu pe-lish-TIM u-ma-ZOT a-SI-ta LA-nu va-YO-mer la-HEM ka-a-SHER a-SU LI KEN a-SI-ti la-HEM
Exegesis
The grievance formula umazot asitah lanu {וּמַה־זֹּאת עָשִׂיתָ לָנוּ | ū-mah-zōṯ ʿāśîtā lānû} heightens communal complaint.
In context — Judges 15:11
Then three thousand men from Judah went down to the cleft of the rock at Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines are ruling over us? What is this that you have done to us?” And he said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”
About this coordinate
Judges 15:11:16 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 16 of Judges 15:11, so the Hebrew word וּמַה־זֹּ֖את (umazot) 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.15.11.W16, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.15.11.W16.S1) and character.