Numbers 18:11:5Num.18.11.W5TAB

בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵל֒

benei yisrael

of the children of Israel

Transliteration
be-NEI yis-ra-EL
Extended
beh-NEI yis-raa-EL
IPA
/bəˈnej jisʁaˈʔeːl/

Meaning by language

English
of the children of Israel

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
בְּנֵ֣י + יִשְׂ + רָ + אֵל֒
be + nei yis + ra + el
benei yisrael

Alphabet Analysis

Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Nunn as in new
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Reshr guttural, like the French r
Qametslong 'ah'
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Lamedl as in law

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Word in context

  1. word

    be-NEI yis-ra-EL

  2. clause

    ve-ZE-le-KHA te-ru-MAT ma-ta-NAM le-KHOL-te-nu-FOT be-NEI yis-ra-EL le-KHA ne-ta-TIM u-le-va-NE-kha ve-liv-no-TE-kha it-KHA le-KHAK-o-LAM

  3. sentence

    ve-ZE-le-KHA te-ru-MAT ma-ta-NAM le-KHOL-te-nu-FOT be-NEI yis-ra-EL le-KHA ne-ta-TIM u-le-va-NE-kha ve-liv-no-TE-kha it-KHA le-KHAK-o-LAM KOL-ta-HOR be-VEIT-kha yo-a-KHAL o-TO

Exegesis

The prepositional phrase le-kol-tenufot benei yisrael {לְכָל־תְּנוּפוֹת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל | lə-ḵōl tə-nū-pōṯ bə-nê yiś-rā-ʾēl} ‘for all the wave offerings of the sons of Israel’ employs a distributive prefix lə-ḵōl ‘for all’ with an absolute plural and a construct chain for possession.

In contextNumbers 18:11

And this is for you: the portion from their gifts for all the wave offerings of the sons of Israel. To you I have given them, and to your sons and to your daughters who are with you, as a perpetual statute . Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.

About this coordinate

Numbers 18:11:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Numbers 18:11, so the Hebrew word בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵל֒ (benei yisrael) 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.18.11.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.18.11.W5.S1) and character.