Judges 21:22:5Judg.21.22.W5TAB
אֲחֵיהֶ֜ם
akhehem
“their brothers”
- Transliteration
- a-khe-HEM
- Extended
- ah-kheh-HEEM
- IPA
- /ʔăħeːˈhem/
Meaning by language
- English
- their brothers
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
a-khe-HEM
- phraseyour reading level
KI-ya-VO-u a-vo-TAM O a-khe-HEM
- clause
ve-ha-YA KI-ya-VO-u a-vo-TAM O a-khe-HEM le-ROV la-RIV e-LEI-nu ve-a-MAR-nu a-LEI-hem kha-NU-nu o-TAM KI LO la-KHAK-nu ISH ish-TO ba-mil-kha-MA
- sentence
ve-ha-YA KI-ya-VO-u a-vo-TAM O a-khe-HEM le-ROV la-RIV e-LEI-nu ve-a-MAR-nu a-LEI-hem kha-NU-nu o-TAM KI LO la-KHAK-nu ISH ish-TO ba-mil-kha-MA KI LO a-TEM ne-TAT-tem la-HEM ka-ET te-e-SHA-mu
Exegesis
A temporal-conditional clause is introduced by ki-yavo’u {כִּֽי־יָבֹ֣אוּ | kî-yā-ḇō-ʾū} ‘when they come’, with avotam {אֲבוֹתָם֩ | ʾă-vo-ṯām} ‘their fathers’ or akheihem {אֲחֵיהֶ֜ם | ʾă-ḥê-hēm} ‘their brothers’ linked by an infinitive lariv {לָרִ֣יב | lā-rîḇ} ‘to dispute’ and the directional phrase eleinu {אֵלֵ֗ינוּ | ʾê-lê-nū} ‘toward us’.
In context — Judges 21:22
And it shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to dispute with us, that we will say to them, “Show favor to them , because we did not take a wife for each man in the war, and because you did not give to them at this time, so that you would not be guilty .”
About this coordinate
Judges 21:22:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Judges 21:22, so the Hebrew word אֲחֵיהֶ֜ם (akhehem) 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.21.22.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.21.22.W5.S1) and character.