Judges 15:18:17Judg.15.18.W17TAB
הָעֲרֵלִֽים׃
haarelim
“the uncircumcised {ones}”
- Transliteration
- ha-a-re-LIM
- Extended
- haa-ah-reh-LEEM
- IPA
- /haː.ʕăreːˈliːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- the uncircumcised {ones}
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| 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
ha-a-re-LIM
- phraseyour reading level
be-YAD ha-a-re-LIM
- clause
ve-a-TA a-MUT ba-tsa-MA ve-na-fal-TI be-YAD ha-a-re-LIM
- sentence
va-yits-MA me-OD va-yik-RA el-ye-ho-VAH va-yo-MAR a-TA na-TAT-ta be-yad-av-de-KHA et-ha-te-shu-A ha-ge-do-LA ha-ZOT ve-a-TA a-MUT ba-tsa-MA ve-na-fal-TI be-YAD ha-a-re-LIM
Exegesis
Finally, the juxtaposition of first-person expressions—‘I shall die of thirst’ (ʾā-mûṭ ba-ṣ-ṣā-māʾ {אָמוּת בַּצָּמָא | ʾā-mûṭ ba-ṣ-ṣā-māʾ}) and ‘I fell into the hand of the uncircumcised’ (wə-nā-phal-tī bə-yad ha-ʿa-rē-lîm {וְנָפַלְתִּ֖י בְּיַ֥ד הָעֲרֵלִֽים | wə-nā-phal-tī bə-yad ha-ʿa-rē-lîm})—forms a chiastic intensity preserved as a single rhetorical question in English.
Root and etymology
ʿ-r-layin–resh–lamed
“uncircumcised”
In context — Judges 15:18
He became very thirsty, and he cried out to the LORD and said, “You have placed this great deliverance in the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?”
About this coordinate
Judges 15:18:17 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 17 of Judges 15:18, so the Hebrew word הָעֲרֵלִֽים׃ (haarelim) 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.15.18.W17, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.15.18.W17.S1) and character.