Numbers 13:27:4Num.13.27.W4TAB
אֶל־הָאָ֖רֶץ
elhaaretz
“to the land”
- Transliteration
- el-ha-A-retz
- Extended
- EHL-hah-AA-retz
- IPA
- /ʔɛlhaˈʔaːrɛts/
Meaning by language
- English
- to the land
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tsade Sofit | final form of Tsade — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
el-ha-A-retz
- clause
va-ye-sap-ru-LO va-yo-MRU BA-nu el-ha-A-retz a-SHER she-lakh-TA-nu
- sentence
va-ye-sap-ru-LO va-yo-MRU BA-nu el-ha-A-retz a-SHER she-lakh-TA-nu ve-GAM za-VAT kha-LAV ud-VASH HI ve-ZE-PIR-yah
Exegesis
The perfect banu {בָּאנּוּ | bā-ʾan-nū} ‘we came’ marks a completed arrival into the direct object el-haaretz {אֶל־הָאָרֶץ | el-hā-ʾā-reṣ} ‘the land’, which is defined by the restrictive relative clause asher shlach-tanu {אֲשֶׁר שְׁלַחְתָּנוּ | ʾă-šer šə-la-ḥtā-nū} ‘which you sent us’.
Root and etymology
RootAleph-Resh-Tsade
“land, earth”
In context — Numbers 13:27
And they recounted to him and said, “We have come to the land you sent us to, and it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit .”
About this coordinate
Numbers 13:27:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Numbers 13:27, so the Hebrew word אֶל־הָאָ֖רֶץ (elhaaretz) 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.13.27.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.13.27.W4.S1) and character.