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
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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The word
Word in context
- word
a-LAI
- clause
a-SHER ha-li-no-TEM a-LAI
- 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 context — Numbers 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.