Judges 19:1:5Judg.19.1.W5TAB
אֵ֣ין
en
“there was not”
- Transliteration
- EN
- Extended
- EEN
- IPA
- /ˈʔeːn/
Meaning by language
- English
- there was not
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Nun Sofit | final form of Nun — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
EN
- phraseyour reading level
EN be-yis-ra-EL
- clause
va-ye-HI ba-ya-MIM ha-HEM u-ME-lekh EN be-yis-ra-EL
- sentence
va-ye-HI ba-ya-MIM ha-HEM u-ME-lekh EN be-yis-ra-EL va-ye-HI ISH le-VI GAR be-yar-ke-TE har-e-fra-YIM va-yik-KAKH-lo i-SHA pi-LE-gesh mi-BET LE-khem ye-hu-DA
Exegesis
The negation clause u-melekh ein beyisrael {וּמֶלֶךְ אֵין בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל | wə-me·lêḵ ʾên bə-yiś-rā-ʾēl} ‘and there was no king in Israel’ highlights the absence of centralized authority characteristic of the Judges era.
In context — Judges 19:1
And it happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that a Levite sojourning in the outskirts of the hill country of Ephraim took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem of Judah .
About this coordinate
Judges 19:1:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Judges 19:1, so the Hebrew word אֵ֣ין (en) 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.19.1.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.19.1.W5.S1) and character.