Nehemiah 13:15:14Neh.13.15.W14TAB
וְכָל־מַשָּׂ֔א
vekholmasa
“and every load”
- Transliteration
- ve-KHOL-ma-SA
- Extended
- veh-KHOL-mah-SAA
- IPA
- /vəχɔl.masˈsɔː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and every load
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-KHOL-ma-SA
- clause
ba-ya-MIM ha-HEM-ma ra-I-ti vi-hu-DA do-re-KHIM-gi-TOT ba-sha-BAT u-me-vi-IM ha-a-re-MOT ve-o-me-SIM al-ha-kha-mo-RIM ve-af-YA-yin a-na-VIM u-te-e-NIM ve-KHOL-ma-SA u-me-vi-IM ye-ru-sha-LIM be-YOM ha-sha-BAT
- sentence
ba-ya-MIM ha-HEM-ma ra-I-ti vi-hu-DA do-re-KHIM-gi-TOT ba-sha-BAT u-me-vi-IM ha-a-re-MOT ve-o-me-SIM al-ha-kha-mo-RIM ve-af-YA-yin a-na-VIM u-te-e-NIM ve-KHOL-ma-SA u-me-vi-IM ye-ru-sha-LIM be-YOM ha-sha-BAT va-a-ID be-YOM mik-RAM tsa-YID
Exegesis
The conjunctive ve’af-yayin {וְאַף־יַ֜יִן | wə-’ap̄-yāyîn} ‘and also wine’ expands the list, capped by ve-kol-massa {וְכָל־מַשָּׂ֔א | wə-ḵāl-massā’} ‘all burdens’ for totality.
Root and etymology
mem–samekh–aleph
“to lift; burden”
In context — Nehemiah 13:15
In those days I saw people in Judah treading grapes in winepresses on the Sabbath . They brought in heaps, loaded them onto donkeys, and carried wine, grapes, figs, and every kind of burden into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, and I warned them on the day of their selling food .
About this coordinate
Nehemiah 13:15:14 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 14 of Nehemiah 13:15, so the Hebrew word וְכָל־מַשָּׂ֔א (vekholmasa) 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 Neh.13.15.W14, which extends further down to each syllable (Neh.13.15.W14.S1) and character.