Leviticus 20:23:7Lev.20.23.W7TAB
מִפְּנֵיכֶ֑ם
mipnekhem
“from before you”
- Transliteration
- mip-ne-KHEM
- Extended
- mihp-neh-KHEM
- IPA
- /mipnɛˈxem/
Meaning by language
- English
- from before you
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
mip-ne-KHEM
- clause
ve-LO te-le-KHOO be-khuk-KOT ha-GOI ah-sher-ah-NEE me-shal-LE-akh mip-ne-KHEM
- sentence
ve-LO te-le-KHOO be-khuk-KOT ha-GOI ah-sher-ah-NEE me-shal-LE-akh mip-ne-KHEM KI et-kol-EH-leh a-SU va-a-KUTS BAM
Exegesis
The prepositional phrase mipneykhem {מִפְּנֵיכֶם | mie-p̄nĕ-ye-khem} ‘from before you’ defines spatial relation.
Root and etymology
Rootp-n-h
“face, presence”
In context — Leviticus 20:23
And you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am driving out from before you, because they did all these things, and I abhorred them.
About this coordinate
Leviticus 20:23:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Leviticus 20:23, so the Hebrew word מִפְּנֵיכֶ֑ם (mipnekhem) 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 Lev.20.23.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.20.23.W7.S1) and character.