Judges 20:10:1Judg.20.10.W1TAB
וְלָקַ֣חְנוּ
velakhakhnu
“and we will take”
- Transliteration
- ve-la-KHAkh-nu
- Extended
- veh-laa-KHAkh-noo
- IPA
- /vələqaħˈnuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and we will take
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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Word in context
- word
ve-la-KHAkh-nu
- phraseyour reading level
ve-la-KHAkh-nu a-sa-RA a-na-SHIM la-me-A
- clause
ve-la-KHAkh-nu a-sa-RA a-na-SHIM la-me-A le-KHOL shiv-TE yis-ra-EL u-me-A la-E-lef ve-E-lef la-re-va-VA la-KHA-khat tse-DA la-AM
- sentence
ve-la-KHAkh-nu a-sa-RA a-na-SHIM la-me-A le-KHOL shiv-TE yis-ra-EL u-me-A la-E-lef ve-E-lef la-re-va-VA la-KHA-khat tse-DA la-AM la-a-SOT le-vo-AM le-GE-va bin-ya-MIN ke-khol-ha-ne-va-LA a-SHER a-SA be-yis-ra-EL
Exegesis
The Hebrew vav-consecutive in velakachnu {וְלָקַ֣חְנוּ | wə-lā-qă-ḥə-nū} establishes a narrative progression of collective decision. The distributive numerals asarah … ume’ah … la’elef … ve’elef … lar’vavah form a proportional scale, each introduced by lamed prepositions and linked by vav conjunctions to indicate tiered recruitment across the tribes.
Root and etymology
“to take, seize”
In context — Judges 20:10
And we will take ten men from every hundred of all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred from every thousand, and a thousand from every ten thousand, to secure provisions for the people , so that they may act when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin according to all the outrage done in Israel.
About this coordinate
Judges 20:10:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Judges 20:10, so the Hebrew word וְלָקַ֣חְנוּ (velakhakhnu) 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.20.10.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.20.10.W1.S1) and character.