Numbers 14:12:3Num.14.12.W3TAB
וְאוֹרִשֶׁ֑נּוּ
veorishenu
“and I will disinherit him”
- Transliteration
- ve-o-ri-SHE-nu
- Extended
- veh-oh-ree-SHEH-noo
- IPA
- /vəʔo.riˈʃe.nuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and I will disinherit him
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 | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-o-ri-SHE-nu
- clause
a-ke-NU va-DE-ver ve-o-ri-SHE-nu
- sentence
a-ke-NU va-DE-ver ve-o-ri-SHE-nu ve-e-e-SEH ot-KHA le-GOI-ga-DOL ve-a-TSUM mi-me-NU
Exegesis
Next, wəʾōrîšēnû {וְאוֹרִשֶׁ֑נּוּ | wə-ʾō-rî-šē-nû} ‘and I will dispossess them’ intensifies the threat.
Root and etymology
y-r-šyod–resh–shin
“to dispossess”
In context — Numbers 14:12
I will strike them down with a plague and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they.
About this coordinate
Numbers 14:12:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Numbers 14:12, so the Hebrew word וְאוֹרִשֶׁ֑נּוּ (veorishenu) 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.14.12.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.14.12.W3.S1) and character.