Judges 17:12:6Judg.17.12.W6TAB
הַנַּ֖עַר
hanaar
“the young man”
- Transliteration
- ha-na-AR
- Extended
- hah-nah-AR
- IPA
- /han.naˈʕar/
Meaning by language
- English
- the young man
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ha-na-AR
- phraseyour reading level
va-ye-HI-LO ha-na-AR
- clause
va-ye-mal-LE mi-KHA et-YAD ha-le-VI va-ye-HI-LO ha-na-AR le-kho-HEN
- sentence
va-ye-mal-LE mi-KHA et-YAD ha-le-VI va-ye-HI-LO ha-na-AR le-kho-HEN va-ye-HI be-VET mi-KHA
Exegesis
A subsequent clause vayehi-lo ha-naar le-kohen {וַיְהִי־ל֥וֹ הַנַּעַר לְכֹהֵ֑ן | wayyaḥî-lō ha-nāʿar le-kōhên} ‘and he became for him the young man as priest’ expresses relational status, and the final clause vayehi be-beit Mikhah {וַיְהִי בְּבֵ֥ית מִיכָֽה׃ | wayyaḥî bə-bêṯ Mî-kāh} ‘and he was in the house of Micah’ establishes location. These structures are rendered with English past-tense verbs and prepositions to preserve the source’s narrative sequence and designation nuance.
Root and etymology
n-ʿ-rnun–ayin–resh
“youth, attendant”
In context — Judges 17:12
And Micah installed the Levite , and the young man became his priest, and he was in the house of Micah.
About this coordinate
Judges 17:12:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Judges 17:12, so the Hebrew word הַנַּ֖עַר (hanaar) 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.17.12.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.17.12.W6.S1) and character.