Nehemiah 13:30:4Neh.13.30.W4TAB
מִשְׁמָר֛וֹת
mishmarot
“charges or duties”
- Transliteration
- mish-ma-ROT
- Extended
- mihsh-maa-ROHT
- IPA
- /miʃmaˈroːt/
Meaning by language
- English
- charges or duties
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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Word in context
- word
mish-ma-ROT
- phraseyour reading level
va-a-mi-DA mish-ma-ROT
- clause
va-a-mi-DA mish-ma-ROT la-ko-ha-NIM ve-lal-vi-YIM ISH bim-la-KHET-to
- sentence
ve-ti-HAR-tim mi-KAL-ne-KHAR va-a-mi-DA mish-ma-ROT la-ko-ha-NIM ve-lal-vi-YIM ISH bim-la-KHET-to
Exegesis
The construct mishmarot la-kohanim ve-la-leviyim {מִשְׁמָרוֹת לַכֹּהֲנִים וְלַלְוִיִּים | miš-mār-ōṯ la-kkō-hă-nîm və-lă-lə-wî-yîm} parallels temple assignments to both groups.
Root and etymology
שׁ־מ־ר
“a watch, guard duty”
In context — Nehemiah 13:30
And I purified them from all foreignness, and I appointed watches for the priests and for the Levites, each man in his task .
About this coordinate
Nehemiah 13:30:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Nehemiah 13:30, so the Hebrew word מִשְׁמָר֛וֹת (mishmarot) 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.13.30.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Neh.13.30.W4.S1) and character.