Leviticus 24:10:5Lev.24.10.W5TAB
בֶּן־אִ֣ישׁ
benish
“son of a man”
- Transliteration
- ben-ISH
- Extended
- behn-EESH
- IPA
- /bɛn.ʔiːʃ/
Meaning by language
- English
- son of a man
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Nun Sofit | final form of Nun — at word end | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot |
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Word in context
- word
ben-ISH
- phraseyour reading level
ben-ISH mits-REE
- 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
The emphatic pronoun vehu {וְהוּא֙ | wəhûʾ} ‘and he’ resumes the subject before the parallel construct ben-ish mitsri {בֶּן־אִ֣ישׁ מִצְרִי֔} ‘son of an Egyptian man’, highlighting dual parentage.
Root and etymology
b-n
“son”
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 24:10:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Leviticus 24:10, so the Hebrew word בֶּן־אִ֣ישׁ (benish) 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.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.24.10.W5.S1) and character.