Leviticus 24:10:3Lev.24.10.W3TAB

יִשְׂרְאֵלִ֔ית

yisreelit

“Israelite woman”

Transliteration: yis-re-e-LIT
Extended: yis-reh-eh-LEET
IPA: /jis.rə.ʔeˈlit/

Meaning by language

English: Israelite woman

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result

יִשְׂ + רְ + אֵ + לִ֔ית

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yis + re + e + lit

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yisreelit

Alphabet Analysis

	Yod	y as in yes; marks long ī
	Hireq	'ee' as in machine
	Shin	shin with right dot; sin with left dot
	Sheva	silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
	Resh	r guttural, like the French r
	Sheva	vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
	Aleph	silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
	Tsere	long 'ey' as in they
	Lamed	l as in law
	Hireq	'ee' as in machine
	Yod	y as in yes; marks long ī
	Tav	t as in top

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Vowels (Niqqud)

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The word

Word in context

word
yis-re-e-LIT
phraseyour reading level
ben-i-SHAH yis-re-e-LIT
clause
va-ye-TSE ben-i-SHAH yis-re-e-LIT ve-HU ben-ISH mits-REE be-TOKH be-NEI yis-ra-EL
sentence
va-ye-TSE ben-i-SHAH yis-re-e-LIT ve-HU ben-ISH mits-REE be-TOKH be-NEI yis-ra-EL va-yi-na-TSU bam-ma-KHA-NEH ben ha-yis-re-e-LIT ve-ISH ha-yis-re-e-LEE

Exegesis

It then presents the construct chain ben-ishah yisreelit {בֶּן־אִשָּׁה יִשְׂרְאֵלִ֔ית} ‘son of an Israelite woman’, marking matrilineal descent.

Root and etymology

y-s-r

“to struggle”

In context — Leviticus 24:10

And the son of an Israelite woman —but he was the son of an Egyptian man—went out among the sons of Israel . And they fought in the camp between the son of the Israelite woman and an Israelite man.

About this coordinate

Leviticus 24:10:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Leviticus 24:10, so the Hebrew word יִשְׂרְאֵלִ֔ית (yisreelit) 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.24.10.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.24.10.W3.S1) and character.

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