Judges 20:41:5Judg.20.41.W5TAB

אִ֣ישׁ

ish

the man of

Transliteration
ISH
Extended
EESH
IPA
/ˈʔiːʃ/

Meaning by language

English
the man of

Alphabet Analysis

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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Vowels (Niqqud)

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Word in context

  1. word

    ISH

  2. phraseyour reading level

    ISH bin-ya-MIN

  3. clause

    ve-ISH yis-ra-EL ha-FAKH va-yib-ba-HEL ISH bin-ya-MIN

  4. sentence

    ve-ISH yis-ra-EL ha-FAKH va-yib-ba-HEL ISH bin-ya-MIN KI ra-AH ki-na-ga-AH a-LAV ha-ra-AH

Exegesis

This is followed by vayyi-bāhēl ʾîš binyāmin {וַיִבָּהֵ֖ל אִ֣ישׁ בִּנְיָמִ֑ן | vayyi-bāhēl ʾîš binyāmin} ‘and the men of Benjamin were terrified’, where the Nifal stem conveys that they were overcome by fear.

Root and etymology

Root’sh

man, person

In contextJudges 20:41

And the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were terrified , for they saw that the disaster had come upon them.

About this coordinate

Judges 20:41:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Judges 20:41, so the Hebrew word אִ֣ישׁ (ish) 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.20.41.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.20.41.W5.S1) and character.