Numbers 14:29:13Num.14.29.W13TAB

עָלָֽי׃

alai

against me

Transliteration
a-LAI
Extended
ah-LAI
IPA
/ʕaˈlaj/

Meaning by language

English
against me

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Result
עָ + לָֽי׃
a + lai
alai

Alphabet Analysis

Ayindeep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal
Qametslong 'ah'
Lamedl as in law
Qametslong 'ah'
Yody as in yes; marks long ī

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Vowels (Niqqud)

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Word in context

  1. word

    a-LAI

  2. clause

    a-SHER ha-li-no-TEM a-LAI

  3. sentence

    ba-mid-BAR ha-ZEH yip-LU fig-rei-KHEM ve-KHOL-pe-ku-DEI-khem le-KHOL-mis-par-KHEM mi-BEN es-RIM sha-NA va-MA-la a-SHER ha-li-no-TEM a-LAI

Exegesis

The relative clause introduced by asher {אֲשֶׁר | ’a-šer} ‘who’ with halinotem alai {הֲלִנֹתֶם עָלָי | ha-lî-nô-têm ’ā-lāy} ‘you have murmured against me’ pinpoints the rebellious subset and underscores divine accountability.

Root and etymology

RootAyin, Lamed, Heh

to bring up

In contextNumbers 14:29

In this wilderness your corpses will fall—every one of your counted ones, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me .

About this coordinate

Numbers 14:29:13 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 13 of Numbers 14:29, so the Hebrew word עָלָֽי׃ (alai) 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.14.29.W13, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.14.29.W13.S1) and character.