Numbers 11:13:12Num.11.13.W12TAB
וְנֹאכֵֽלָה׃
venokhela
“and we may eat”
- Transliteration
- ve-no-KHE-la
- Extended
- veh-noh-KHEH-lah
- IPA
- /vɛnoːxeˈlaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and we may eat
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-no-KHE-la
- clause
ki-yiv-KU a-LAI le-MOR te-NA-la-NU ba-SAR ve-no-KHE-la
- sentence
mei-A-yin li ba-SAR la-TET le-KHOL-ha-AM ha-ZEH ki-yiv-KU a-LAI le-MOR te-NA-la-NU ba-SAR ve-no-KHE-la
Exegesis
The infinitive leemor {לֵאמֹ֔ר | lê-’ā-môr} ‘saying’ signals direct speech, which then uses the Qal imperative tena {תְּנָה־ | tə-nāh} ‘give’ and the cohortative imperfect venokhela {וְנֹאכֵֽלָה׃ | wə-nō-ḵê-lā} ‘we will eat’, forming a forceful plea. English shifts the Hebrew VSO to SVO for clarity and retains the causal structure and intensity of the appeal.
Root and etymology
Rootkaf-lamed-lamed
“all, whole”
In context — Numbers 11:13
From where can I get meat to give to all these people? For they are weeping over me, saying, “Give us meat and we will eat.”
About this coordinate
Numbers 11:13:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Numbers 11:13, so the Hebrew word וְנֹאכֵֽלָה׃ (venokhela) 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 Num.11.13.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.11.13.W12.S1) and character.