Judges 18:8:3Judg.18.8.W3TAB
צָרְעָ֖ה
tsarea
“Zorah”
- Transliteration
- tsar-e-A
- Extended
- tsaar-eh-AA
- IPA
- /tsɔr.ʕaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- Zorah
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
tsar-e-A
- clause
va-ya-VO-u el-a-khe-HEM tsar-e-A ve-esh-ta-OL
- sentence
va-ya-VO-u el-a-khe-HEM tsar-e-A ve-esh-ta-OL va-yo-me-RU la-HEM a-khe-HEM MA a-TEM
Exegesis
Two proper names, ṣā-rə-ʿāh {צָרְעָ֖ה | ṣā-rə-ʿāh} ‘Zorah’ and wə-ʾeš-tā-ʾōl {וְאֶשְׁתָּאֹ֑ל | wə-ʾeš-tā-ʾōl} ‘and Eshtaol’, function as appositional locatives.
In context — Judges 18:8
And they came to their brothers in Zorah and Eshtaol, and their brothers said to them, “What do you bring?”
About this coordinate
Judges 18:8:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Judges 18:8, so the Hebrew word צָרְעָ֖ה (tsarea) 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.18.8.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.18.8.W3.S1) and character.