Numbers 18:3:2Num.18.3.W2TAB
מִֽשְׁמַרְתְּךָ֔
mishmartekha
“your duty”
- Transliteration
- mish-mar-TE-kha
- Extended
- mish-mahr-TEH-kha
- IPA
- /miʃmɑrˈtəxɑ/
Meaning by language
- English
- your duty
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' |
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The word
Word in context
- word
mish-mar-TE-kha
- clause
ve-sham-RU mish-mar-TE-kha u-mish-ME-ret kol-ha-O-hel
- sentence
ve-sham-RU mish-mar-TE-kha u-mish-ME-ret kol-ha-O-hel AKH el-ke-LEI hak-KO-desh ve-el-ham-miz-BE-akh LO yik-ra-VOO ve-LO-ya-MU-tu gam-HEM gam-a-TEM
Exegesis
The parallelism of mishmartkha {מִשְׁמַרְתְּךָ | miš-mar-tĕ-kā} and u-mishmeret {וּמִשְׁמֶרֶת | ū-miš-mĕ-rĕt} emphasizes both the personal and communal nature of the duty.
Root and etymology
RootShin-Mem-Resh
“to keep, guard, observe”
In context — Numbers 18:3
And they shall keep your duty and the duty of all the tent, but they must not approach the holy vessels or the altar, so that they may not die—both they and you.
About this coordinate
Numbers 18:3:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Numbers 18:3, so the Hebrew word מִֽשְׁמַרְתְּךָ֔ (mishmartekha) 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.18.3.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.18.3.W2.S1) and character.