Nehemiah 13:27:3Neh.13.27.W3TAB
לַעֲשֹׂת֙
laasot
“to do”
- Transliteration
- la-a-SOT
- Extended
- lah-ah-SOHT
- IPA
- /laʕăˈsoːt/
Meaning by language
- English
- to do
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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The word
Word in context
- word
la-a-SOT
- clause
ve-la-KHEM ha-nish-MA la-a-SOT ET KAL-ha-ra-A ha-ge-do-LA ha-ZOT lim-OL be-lo-HEI-nu
- sentence
ve-la-KHEM ha-nish-MA la-a-SOT ET KAL-ha-ra-A ha-ge-do-LA ha-ZOT lim-OL be-lo-HEI-nu le-ho-SHIV na-SHIM na-khri-YOT
Exegesis
forms a rhetorical question that introduces the infinitive clause laasot {לַעֲשֹׂת | la-ʿă-śôṯ} ‘to do’ plus kol haraah hagedolah hazot {כָּל־הָרָעָה הַגְּדוֹלָה הַזֹּאת | kol hā-rā-ʿāh ha-gedō-lāh ha-zōt} ‘all this great evil’ as the proposed action.
In context — Nehemiah 13:27
Is it to be heard of you that you are doing all this great evil by acting unfaithfully against our God by bringing in foreign women ?
About this coordinate
Nehemiah 13:27:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Nehemiah 13:27, so the Hebrew word לַעֲשֹׂת֙ (laasot) 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.13.27.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Neh.13.27.W3.S1) and character.