Judges 15:8:4Judg.15.8.W4TAB
עַל־יָרֵ֖ךְ
alyarekh
“upon thigh”
- Transliteration
- al-ya-REKH
- Extended
- ahl-yah-REEKH
- IPA
- /ʕal.jaˈreːx/
Meaning by language
- English
- upon thigh
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable |
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The word
Word in context
- word
al-ya-REKH
- clause
va-YAKH o-TAM SHOK al-ya-REKH ma-KA ge-do-LA
- sentence
va-YAKH o-TAM SHOK al-ya-REKH ma-KA ge-do-LA va-YE-red va-YE-shev bis-se-IF SE-la e-TAM
Exegesis
The idiomatic phrase shoq al-yarekh {שׁוֹק עַל־יָרֵךְ | šōq ʿal-yārēḵ} ‘thigh upon hip’ intensifies the completeness of the strike.
Root and etymology
Rooty-r-k
“thigh, hip”
In context — Judges 15:8
He struck them down, thigh upon hip, with a great blow . Then he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
About this coordinate
Judges 15:8:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Judges 15:8, so the Hebrew word עַל־יָרֵ֖ךְ (alyarekh) 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.15.8.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.15.8.W4.S1) and character.