Judges 21:18:5Judg.21.18.W5TAB
נָשִׁ֖ים
nashim
“women or wives”
- Transliteration
- na-SHIM
- Extended
- naa-SHEEM
- IPA
- /naːˈʃiːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- women or wives
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| 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
na-SHIM
- phraseyour reading level
la-TET-la-HEM na-SHIM
- clause
va-a-NAKH-nu LO nu-KHAL la-TET-la-HEM na-SHIM mib-be-no-TEI-nu
- sentence
va-a-NAKH-nu LO nu-KHAL la-TET-la-HEM na-SHIM mib-be-no-TEI-nu ki-nish-be-U ve-NEI-yis-ra-EL le-MOR a-RUR no-TEN i-SHA le-vin-ya-MIN
Exegesis
The infinitive construct lātēt {לָתֵת | lātēt} ‘to give’ takes the object pronoun lāhēm {לָהֶם | lāhēm} ‘to them,’ governed by nāšîm {נָשִׁים | nāšîm} ‘wives’ and the construct mibənôtênû {מִבְּנוֹתֵינוּ | mibənôtênû} ‘from our daughters.’
Root and etymology
n-sh-m
“women, wives”
In context — Judges 21:18
And we are not able to give them wives from our daughters, for the sons of Israel have sworn, saying, “Cursed is the one who gives a wife to Benjamin.”
About this coordinate
Judges 21:18:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Judges 21:18, so the Hebrew word נָשִׁ֖ים (nashim) 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.21.18.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.21.18.W5.S1) and character.