Judges 21:8:7Judg.21.8.W7TAB
לֹֽא־עָלָ֥ה
loala
“did not go up”
- Transliteration
- lo-A-LA
- Extended
- loh-ah-LAA
- IPA
- /loː.ʕaˈlaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- did not go up
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
lo-A-LA
- phraseyour reading level
lo-A-LA el-ye-ho-VAH
- clause
va-yo-ME-ru MI e-KHAD mish-shiv-TE yis-ra-EL a-SHER lo-A-LA el-ye-ho-VAH ham-mits-PA
- sentence
va-yo-ME-ru MI e-KHAD mish-shiv-TE yis-ra-EL a-SHER lo-A-LA el-ye-ho-VAH ham-mits-PA ve-hin-NE LO va-IHSH el-ham-ma-kha-NE miy-ya-VESH gil-AD el-hak-ka-HAL
Exegesis
A relative clause introduced by asher lo-alah {אֲשֶׁר לֹא־עָלָה | ʾă-šer lōʾ-ʿā-lāh} ‘who did not go up’ modifies ‘one’, specifying the absent.
Root and etymology
ʿ-l-hAyin, Lamed, He
“to go up, ascend”
In context — Judges 21:8
And they said, “Who is the one from the tribes of Israel who did not go up to the LORD at Mizpah?” And behold, no man came to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly .
About this coordinate
Judges 21:8:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Judges 21:8, so the Hebrew word לֹֽא־עָלָ֥ה (loala) 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.21.8.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.21.8.W7.S1) and character.