Numbers 13:17:4Num.13.17.W4TAB
לָת֖וּר
latur
“to spy out”
- Transliteration
- la-TUR
- Extended
- laa-TOOR
- IPA
- /laˈtuːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- to spy out
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
la-TUR
- clause
va-yish-LAKH o-TAM mo-SHEH la-TUR ET-E-retz ke-NA-an
- sentence
va-yish-LAKH o-TAM mo-SHEH la-TUR ET-E-retz ke-NA-an va-yo-MER a-le-HEM a-LU ZEH ba-NE-gev va-a-li-TEM ET-ha-HAR
Exegesis
The infinitive latur {לָת֖וּר | lā-tur} expresses purpose (‘to scout’), with et-eretz Kena‘an {אֶת־אֶ֣רֶץ כְּנָ֑עַן | ʾet-ʾe-reṣ kĕ-nā-ʿan} as its object.
Root and etymology
Roottav-vav-resh
“to seek out”
In context — Numbers 13:17
And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and he said to them, “Go up here through the Negev and go up into the hill country.”
About this coordinate
Numbers 13:17:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Numbers 13:17, so the Hebrew word לָת֖וּר (latur) 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.13.17.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.13.17.W4.S1) and character.