Judges 21:24:8Judg.21.24.W8TAB

וּלְמִשְׁפַּחְתּ֑וֹ

ulemishpakhto

and to his family

Transliteration
u-le-mish-pa-kh-TO
Extended
oo-leh-mihsh-pah-kh-TOH
IPA
/uːləmɪʃpaħˈtːoː/

Meaning by language

English
and to his family

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Result
וּ + לְ + מִ + שְׁ + פַּחְ + תּ֑וֹ
u + le + mish + pa + kh + to
ulemishpakhto

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Lamedl as in law
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Memm as in mother
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Pep with dagesh; f without
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Chetch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Tavt as in top
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Holemlong 'oh' as in go

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Word in context

  1. word

    u-le-mish-pa-kh-TO

  2. 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

  3. 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.

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 21:24:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Judges 21:24, so the Hebrew word וּלְמִשְׁפַּחְתּ֑וֹ (ulemishpakhto) 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.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.21.24.W8.S1) and character.