Judges 15:11:3Judg.15.11.W3TAB
אֲלָפִ֨ים
alafim
“thousands”
- Transliteration
- a-la-FIM
- Extended
- ah-laa-FEEM
- IPA
- /ʔălaːˈfiːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- thousands
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Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
a-la-FIM
- phraseyour reading level
she-lo-SHET a-la-FIM ISH
- 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 construct chain sheloshet alafim ish {שְׁלֹשֶׁת אֲלָפִים אִישׁ | šəlōšēt ʾălāp̄îm ʾîš} indicates “three thousand men.”
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 15:11:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Judges 15:11, so the Hebrew word אֲלָפִ֨ים (alafim) 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.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.15.11.W3.S1) and character.