Numbers 13:18:7Num.13.18.W7TAB
הֶחָזָ֥ק
hekhazak
“whether strong”
- Transliteration
- he-kha-ZAK
- Extended
- heh-kha-ZAAK
- IPA
- /hɛħaˈzaːk/
Meaning by language
- English
- whether strong
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Zayin | z as in zero | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular |
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Word in context
- word
he-kha-ZAK
- phraseyour reading level
he-kha-ZAK HU
- clause
ve-et-ha-AM ha-yo-SHEV a-le-HA he-kha-ZAK HU ha-ra-FEH ham-AT HU im-RAV
- sentence
u-re-i-TEM et-ha-A-retz ma-HU ve-et-ha-AM ha-yo-SHEV a-le-HA he-kha-ZAK HU ha-ra-FEH ham-AT HU im-RAV
Exegesis
The distribution of qualities employs parallelism through adjectival pairs joined by the interrogative im {אִם־ | ʾim}: hechazaq {הֶחָזָ֥ק | hē-ḥā-zāq} ‘strong’ or harafeh {הֲרָפֶ֔ה | ḥă-rā-p̄eh} ‘weak,’ and hame’at {הַמְעַ֥ט | ham-‘ǎṭ} ‘few’ or rav {רָֽב | rāḇ} ‘many.’
Root and etymology
ḥ-z-q
“to be strong”
In context — Numbers 13:18
And you shall see the land —what it is—and the people who dwell on it, whether they are strong or weak , few or many.
About this coordinate
Numbers 13:18:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Numbers 13:18, so the Hebrew word הֶחָזָ֥ק (hekhazak) 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.13.18.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.13.18.W7.S1) and character.