Judges 20:8:5Judg.20.8.W5TAB
לֵאמֹ֑ר
lemor
“saying”
- Transliteration
- le-MOR
- Extended
- lee-MOHR
- IPA
- /leːˈʔmoːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- saying
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
le-MOR
- clause
va-YA-kam kol-ha-AM ke-ISH e-KHAD le-MOR
- sentence
va-YA-kam kol-ha-AM ke-ISH e-KHAD le-MOR LO ne-LEKH ISH le-a-ho-LO ve-LO na-SUR ISH le-VE-to
Exegesis
The infinitive construct le-emor {לֵאמֹר | le-ʾā-môr} introduces the communal speech of a vow.
Root and etymology
א־מ־ר
“to speak, say”
In context — Judges 20:8
And all the people arose as one man and said, “Not one of us will go to his tent , and not one of us will turn aside to his house .”
About this coordinate
Judges 20:8:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Judges 20:8, so the Hebrew word לֵאמֹ֑ר (lemor) 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.20.8.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.20.8.W5.S1) and character.