Judges 20:42:3Judg.20.42.W3TAB

אִ֤ישׁ

ish

a man of

Transliteration
ISH
Extended
EESH
IPA
/ˈʔiːʃ/

Meaning by language

English
a 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

    lif-NEI ISH yis-ra-EL

  3. clause

    va-yif-NU lif-NEI ISH yis-ra-EL el-DE-rekh ha-mid-BAR ve-ha-mil-kha-MA hid-bi-ka-TE-hu

  4. sentence

    va-yif-NU lif-NEI ISH yis-ra-EL el-DE-rekh ha-mid-BAR ve-ha-mil-kha-MA hid-bi-ka-TE-hu va-a-SHER me-he-rim mash-khi-TIM o-TO be-to-KHO

Root and etymology

Root’sh

man, person

In contextJudges 20:42

And they turned before the men of Israel toward the road to the wilderness, and the battle overtook them, and those who came from the cities were destroying them in their midst.

About this coordinate

Judges 20:42:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Judges 20:42, so the Hebrew word אִ֤ישׁ (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.20.42.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.20.42.W3.S1) and character.