Judges 21:24:7Judg.21.24.W7TAB

לְשִׁבְט֖וֹ

leshivto

to his tribe

Transliteration
le-shiv-TO
Extended
leh-shihv-TOH
IPA
/ləʃivˈtˤoː/

Meaning by language

English
to his tribe

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
לְ + שִׁבְ + ט֖וֹ
le + shiv + to
leshivto

Alphabet Analysis

Lamedl as in law
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Tett — emphatic
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Holemlong 'oh' as in go

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Word in context

  1. word

    le-shiv-TO

  2. phraseyour reading level

    ISH le-shiv-TO

  3. clause

    va-yit-ha-le-KHU mi-SHAM be-NEI-yis-ra-EL ba-ET ha-HI ISH le-shiv-TO u-le-mish-pa-kh-TO

  4. sentence

    va-yit-ha-le-KHU mi-SHAM be-NEI-yis-ra-EL ba-ET ha-HI ISH le-shiv-TO u-le-mish-pa-kh-TO va-ye-tsu mi-SHAM ISH le-na-kha-la-TO

Exegesis

The prepositional prefixes le- in le-shivtô {לְשִׁבְט֖וֹ | lə·šib·tô} ‘to his tribe’, u-le-mishpakhto {וּלְמִשְׁפַּחְתּ֑וֹ | û·lə·miš·pā·ḥāṯ·ô} ‘and to his family’, and le-nakhalato {לְנַחֲלָתֽוֹ | lə·naḥ·ă·lā·ṯô} ‘to his inheritance’ delineate directional movement tied to social and territorial identity.

Root and etymology

š-b-ṭshin–bet–tet

tribe, staff

In contextJudges 21:24

And the Israelites departed from there at that time, each man to his tribe and to his family , and they went out from there, each man to his inheritance.

About this coordinate

Judges 21:24:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Judges 21:24, so the Hebrew word לְשִׁבְט֖וֹ (leshivto) 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.21.24.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.21.24.W7.S1) and character.