Judges 16:26:3Judg.16.26.W3TAB

אֶל־הַנַּ֨עַר

elhanaar

to the young man

Transliteration
el-ha-NA-ar
Extended
ehl-hah-NAH-ahr
IPA
/ʔɛl.hanˈna.ʕar/

Meaning by language

English
to the young man

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
אֶל + הַ + נַּ֨ + עַר
el + ha + na + ar
elhanaar

Alphabet Analysis

Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Segholshort 'eh' as in met
Lamedl as in law
Heh as in house; silent at word end
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Nunn as in new
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Ayindeep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Reshr guttural, like the French r

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Word in context

  1. word

    el-ha-NA-ar

  2. phraseyour reading level

    el-ha-NA-ar ha-ma-kha-ZIK be-ya-DO

  3. clause

    va-yo-MER shim-sHON el-ha-NA-ar ha-ma-kha-ZIK be-ya-DO ha-ni-KHA o-TI ve-him-she-NI va-ha-mi-SHE-ni et-ha-a-mu-DIM a-SHER ha-BA-yit na-KHON a-le-HEM

  4. sentence

    va-yo-MER shim-sHON el-ha-NA-ar ha-ma-kha-ZIK be-ya-DO ha-ni-KHA o-TI ve-him-she-NI va-ha-mi-SHE-ni et-ha-a-mu-DIM a-SHER ha-BA-yit na-KHON a-le-HEM ve-esh-a-EN a-le-HEM

Exegesis

The phrase el-hanaar {אֶל־הַנַּ֨עַר | ʾel-hannaʿar} ‘to the youth’ with hamakhazik {הַמַּחֲזִ֣יק | ham-maḥă-zîq} ‘holding’ and beyado {בְּיָדוֹ | bə-yā-dō} ‘in his hand’ identifies the attendant’s role.

Root and etymology

n-‘-rnun–ayin–resh

youth, attendant

In contextJudges 16:26

And Samson said to the youth who was holding him by the hand, “Let me feel the pillars on which the house stands, that I may lean on them.”

About this coordinate

Judges 16:26:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Judges 16:26, so the Hebrew word אֶל־הַנַּ֨עַר (elhanaar) 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.16.26.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.16.26.W3.S1) and character.