Judges 18:17:5Judg.18.17.W5TAB
לְרַגֵּ֣ל
leraggel
“to spy out”
- Transliteration
- le-rag-GEL
- Extended
- leh-rahg-GEEL
- IPA
- /ləraɣˈɡeːl/
Meaning by language
- English
- to spy out
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Gimel | g as in good | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Lamed | l as in law |
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Word in context
- word
le-rag-GEL
- phraseyour reading level
le-rag-GEL et-ha-A-rets
- clause
va-ya-A-lu kha-ME-shet ha-a-na-SHIM ha-hol-KHIM le-rag-GEL et-ha-A-rets ba-U SHA-ma la-KHU et-ha-PE-sel ve-et-ha-e-FOD ve-et-ha-te-ra-FIM ve-et-ha-mas-SE-kha
- sentence
va-ya-A-lu kha-ME-shet ha-a-na-SHIM ha-hol-KHIM le-rag-GEL et-ha-A-rets ba-U SHA-ma la-KHU et-ha-PE-sel ve-et-ha-e-FOD ve-et-ha-te-ra-FIM ve-et-ha-mas-SE-kha ve-ha-ko-HEN ni-TSAV PE-takh ha-SHA-ar ve-SHESH-me-OT ha-ISH he-kha-GUR ke-LE ha-mil-kha-MA
Exegesis
The construct chain chameshet ha’anashim {חֲמֵ֣שֶׁת הָאֲנָשִׁ֗ים | ḥă-me-šet hā-’ănā-šîm} ‘five of the men’ is modified by the participle hahalokhim {הַהֹלְכִים֮ | ha-hō-lə-ḵîm} ‘those walking’ and the infinitive leraggel {לְרַגֵּ֣ל | lə-ra-gēl} ‘to spy out,’ creating an agent-purpose clause.
Root and etymology
lĕ-rag-gēllĕ-rag-gēl
“to track on foot”
In context — Judges 18:17
And five of the men who went to spy out the land went up; they came there and took the carved image , the ephod, the teraphim, and the cast image. Then the priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred armed men.
About this coordinate
Judges 18:17:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Judges 18:17, so the Hebrew word לְרַגֵּ֣ל (leraggel) 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.18.17.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.18.17.W5.S1) and character.