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
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go |
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Word in context
- word
u-le-mish-pa-kh-TO
- 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
- 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 context — Judges 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.