Judges 21:16:6Judg.21.16.W6TAB
לְנָשִׁ֑ים
lenashim
“for wives”
- Transliteration
- le-na-SHIM
- Extended
- leh-naa-SHEEM
- IPA
- /lənaːˈʃiːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- for wives
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
le-na-SHIM
- clause
va-yo-me-RU zik-NE ha-e-DA ma-na-a-SE la-no-ta-RIM le-na-SHIM
- sentence
va-yo-me-RU zik-NE ha-e-DA ma-na-a-SE la-no-ta-RIM le-na-SHIM ki-nish-me-DA mib-bin-ya-MIN i-SHA
Exegesis
The prepositional pair la-notarim {לַנּוֹתָרִים | la-nōṯārîm} ‘for those who remain’ and le-nashim {לְנָשִׁ֑ים | lə-nāšîm} ‘for women’ forms a purpose-benefit construction.
Root and etymology
n-sh-m
“women, wives”
In context — Judges 21:16
And the elders said, “What shall we do for the survivors regarding wives, since a woman has been destroyed from Benjamin ?”
About this coordinate
Judges 21:16:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Judges 21:16, so the Hebrew word לְנָשִׁ֑ים (lenashim) 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.21.16.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.21.16.W6.S1) and character.