Judges 20:4:2Judg.20.4.W2TAB

הָאִ֣ישׁ

haish

the man

Transliteration
ha-ISH
Extended
haa-EESH
IPA
/haːˈʔiːʃ/

Meaning by language

English
the man

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Result
הָ + אִ֣ישׁ
ha + ish
haish

Alphabet Analysis

Heh as in house; silent at word end
Qametslong 'ah'
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot

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Word in context

  1. word

    ha-ISH

  2. phraseyour reading level

    ha-ISH ha-le-VI

  3. clause

    va-ya-AN ha-ISH ha-le-VI ISH ha-i-SHA ha-nir-tsa-KHA va-yo-MAR

  4. sentence

    va-ya-AN ha-ISH ha-le-VI ISH ha-i-SHA ha-nir-tsa-KHA va-yo-MAR ha-giv-a-TA a-SHER le-vin-ya-MIN ba-TI a-NI u-fi-lag-SHI la-LUN

Exegesis

The narrative uses the waw-consecutive wayya‘an {וַיַּ֜עַן | wayya‘an} “and he answered” followed by an appositional subject chain ha-’îš ha-lēwî {הָאִ֣ישׁ הַלֵּוִ֗י | ha-’îš ha-lēwî} “the man, the Levite,” then the participial phrase ū-pîlāgšî ha-niṛṣāḥâ {וּפִֽילַגְשִׁי הַנִּרְצָחָה | ū-pîlāgšî ha-niṛṣāḥâ} “and my concubine, the murdered woman.”

Root and etymology

Root’sh

man, person

In contextJudges 20:4

And the Levite , the husband of the murdered woman, answered and said, “My concubine and I came to Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin, to lodge .”

About this coordinate

Judges 20:4:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Judges 20:4, so the Hebrew word הָאִ֣ישׁ (haish) 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.20.4.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.20.4.W2.S1) and character.