Numbers 16:14:9Num.16.14.W9TAB

נַחֲלַת

nakhalat

inheritance

Transliteration
na-kha-LAT
Extended
nah-kha-LAHT
IPA
/naħăˈlat/

Meaning by language

English
inheritance

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Result
נַ + חֲ + לַת
na + kha + lat
nakhalat

Alphabet Analysis

Nunn as in new
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Chetch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch
Hateph Patachreduced 'ah'
Lamedl as in law
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Tavt as in top

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Word in context

  1. word

    na-kha-LAT

  2. sentence

    AF LO ha-ve-TA-nu el-E-RETS za-VAT kha-LAV u-de-VASH va-ti-TEN-LA-nu na-kha-LAT sa-DE va-KE-rem ha-ei-NEI ha-a-na-SHIM ha-HEM te-na-KER LO na-a-LE

Exegesis

The construct nāḥă-lat sādēh wa-ḵā-rem {נַחֲלַת שָׂדֶה וָכָרֶם | naḥă-lat sādēh wa-ḵā-rem} binds inheritance, field, and vineyard into a single entitlement.

In contextNumbers 16:14

Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? We will not go up.

About this coordinate

Numbers 16:14:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Numbers 16:14, so the Hebrew word נַחֲלַת (nakhalat) 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.16.14.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.16.14.W9.S1) and character.