Numbers 16:3:13Num.16.3.W13TAB
תִּתְנַשְּׂאוּ
titnaseu
“do you exalt yourselves”
- Transliteration
- tit-na-SE-u
- Extended
- tit-nah-seh-OO
- IPA
- /titnaˈsːe.uː/
Meaning by language
- English
- do you exalt yourselves
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
tit-na-SE-u
- sentence
va-yi-ka-ha-LU al-mo-SHEH ve-al-a-ha-RON va-yo-me-RU a-le-HEM rav-la-KHEM ki-kol-ha-e-DAH ku-LAM ke-do-SHIM u-ve-to-KHAM Ye-ho-VAH u-mad-DU-a tit-na-SE-u al-ke-HAL Ye-ho-VAH
Exegesis
The interrogative u-madua titnasseu {וּמַדּוּעַ תִּתְנַשְּׂא֖וּ | ū-maddūaʿ titnassēʾū} employs the Hitpael reflexive to question the act of self-exaltation over the assembly.
Root and etymology
n-s-ʾn-s-ʾ
“to lift, carry, exalt”
In context — Numbers 16:3
And they assembled against Moses and against Aaron, and they said to them, “It is too much for you! For all the assembly, all of them, are holy, and in their midst is the LORD . Why then do you exalt yourselves over the LORD’s assembly ?”
About this coordinate
Numbers 16:3:13 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 13 of Numbers 16:3, so the Hebrew word תִּתְנַשְּׂאוּ (titnaseu) 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.16.3.W13, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.16.3.W13.S1) and character.