Nehemiah 13:6:15Neh.13.6.W15TAB
נִשְׁאַ֥לְתִּי
nishealti
“I was asked or I asked {leave}”
- Transliteration
- nish-e-AL-ti
- Extended
- nihsh-eh-AHL-tih
- IPA
- /niʃ.ʔaːlˈtiː/
Meaning by language
- English
- I was asked or I asked {leave}
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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The word
Word in context
- word
nish-e-AL-ti
- phraseyour reading level
nish-e-AL-ti min-ha-ME-lekh
- clause
KI bi-she-NAT she-lo-SHIM u-she-TAY-im le-ar-te-kha-SAS-te ME-lekh-BA-vel ba-TI el-ha-ME-lekh u-le-KETS ya-MIM nish-e-AL-ti min-ha-ME-lekh
- sentence
u-ve-KHOL-ZE LO ha-YI-ti bi-ru-sha-LIM KI bi-she-NAT she-lo-SHIM u-she-TAY-im le-ar-te-kha-SAS-te ME-lekh-BA-vel ba-TI el-ha-ME-lekh u-le-KETS ya-MIM nish-e-AL-ti min-ha-ME-lekh
Exegesis
The idiom u-le-kez yamim {וּלְקֵץ יָמִים | u-lə-qêṣ yā-mîm} functions temporally “after some time,” and the Nifal perfect nish'alti {נִשְׁאַ֥לְתִּי | ni-šʾal-tî} conveys Nehemiah’s petition for leave from the king.
Root and etymology
š-’l
“to ask”
In context — Nehemiah 13:6
But during all this time I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I came to the king, and at the end of a few days I asked leave from the king.
About this coordinate
Nehemiah 13:6:15 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 15 of Nehemiah 13:6, so the Hebrew word נִשְׁאַ֥לְתִּי (nishealti) 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.13.6.W15, which extends further down to each syllable (Neh.13.6.W15.S1) and character.