Nehemiah 13:27:8Neh.13.27.W8TAB
לִמְעֹ֖ל
limol
“to act unfaithfully”
- Transliteration
- lim-OL
- Extended
- lihm-OHL
- IPA
- /lɪmˈʕoːl/
Meaning by language
- English
- to act unfaithfully
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Lamed | l as in law |
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The word
Word in context
- word
lim-OL
- 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
The parallel infinitives limaol {לִמְעֹל | lim-ʿōl} ‘to act unfaithfully’ and lehoshiv {לְהֹשִׁיב | le-hō-šîv} ‘to bring in’ link covenant breach to the entry of nashim {נָשִׁים | nā-shîm} ‘women’ modified by nokhriyot {נָכְרִיּוֹת | no-khri-yōt} ‘foreign’.
Root and etymology
mem-ayin-lamedmem–ayin–lamed
“to act unfaithfully”
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 13:27:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Nehemiah 13:27, so the Hebrew word לִמְעֹ֖ל (limol) 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.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Neh.13.27.W8.S1) and character.