Nehemiah 13:21:12Neh.13.21.W12TAB
אֶשְׁלַ֣ח
eshelakh
“I will send forth”
- Transliteration
- e-she-LAKH
- Extended
- eh-sheh-LAHKH
- IPA
- /ʔɛʃəˈlaħ/
Meaning by language
- English
- I will send forth
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Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch |
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Word in context
- word
e-she-LAKH
- phraseyour reading level
e-she-LAKH ba-KHEM
- clause
va-a-I-da va-HEM va-o-me-RA a-le-HEM mad-DU-a a-TEM le-NIM NE-ged ha-kho-MA im-ti-sha-NU YAD e-she-LAKH ba-KHEM
- sentence
va-a-I-da va-HEM va-o-me-RA a-le-HEM mad-DU-a a-TEM le-NIM NE-ged ha-kho-MA im-ti-sha-NU YAD e-she-LAKH ba-KHEM min-ha-ET ha-HI lo-va-U ba-sha-BAT
Exegesis
The idiom yad eshlach bakhem {יָ֖ד אֶשְׁלַ֣ח בָּכֶ֑ם | yād ʾeš-lă-ḥ bā-ḵem} literally “hand I will send against you” signals an exercise of authority.
In context — Nehemiah 13:21
And I warned them and said to them, “Why are you lodging opposite the wall? If you do this again, I will send a hand against you.” From that time they did not come on the Sabbath .
About this coordinate
Nehemiah 13:21:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Nehemiah 13:21, so the Hebrew word אֶשְׁלַ֣ח (eshelakh) 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.13.21.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Neh.13.21.W12.S1) and character.