Numbers 14:34:8Num.14.34.W8TAB
לַשָּׁנָ֞ה
lashana
“for a year”
- Transliteration
- la-sha-NA
- Extended
- lah-sha-NAH
- IPA
- /laʃaˈnaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- for a year
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
la-sha-NA
- phraseyour reading level
YOM la-sha-NA
- clause
be-mis-PAR ha-ya-MIM a-sher-TAR-tem et-ha-A-retz ar-ba-IM YOM YOM la-sha-NA YOM la-sha-NA tis-U et-a-vo-no-TEI-khem ar-ba-IM sha-NA
- sentence
be-mis-PAR ha-ya-MIM a-sher-TAR-tem et-ha-A-retz ar-ba-IM YOM YOM la-sha-NA YOM la-sha-NA tis-U et-a-vo-no-TEI-khem ar-ba-IM sha-NA vi-dat-TEM et-te-nu-a-TI
Exegesis
The repetition of yom la-šanah {יוֹם לַשָּׁנָה | yom la-šanah} ‘a day for a year’ underscores this equivalence.
In context — Numbers 14:34
By the number of the days that you explored the land—forty days, a day for a year, a day for a year—you will bear your iniquities for forty years, and you shall know my opposition .
About this coordinate
Numbers 14:34:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Numbers 14:34, so the Hebrew word לַשָּׁנָ֞ה (lashana) 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.14.34.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.14.34.W8.S1) and character.