Numbers 22:37:5Num.22.37.W5TAB
שָׁלֹ֨חַ
shaloakh
“sending”
- Transliteration
- sha-LO-akh
- Extended
- shaa-LOH-akh
- IPA
- /ʃaːˈloːaχ/
Meaning by language
- English
- sending
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father |
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The word
Word in context
- word
sha-LO-akh
- phraseyour reading level
ha-LO sha-LO-akh sha-lakh-TI e-lei-KHA
- clause
va-YO-mer ba-LAK el-bil-AM ha-LO sha-LO-akh sha-lakh-TI e-lei-KHA lik-RO-lakh la-MAH lo-ha-lakh-TA e-LAI
- sentence
va-YO-mer ba-LAK el-bil-AM ha-LO sha-LO-akh sha-lakh-TI e-lei-KHA lik-RO-lakh la-MAH lo-ha-lakh-TA e-LAI ha-um-NAM LO u-KHAL kab-be-DE-kha
Exegesis
frames a rhetorical question, followed by the infinitive absolute shalach {שָׁלֹחַ | šālōaḥ} plus perfect šālaḥtî {שָׁלַחְתִּי | šālaḥtî}, an emphatic construction intensifying his sending. The question lamāh lō-hālaḵtā ʾēlāy ‘why did you not come to me?’ uses a direct interrogative.
Root and etymology
RootShin-Lamed-Chet
“to send”
In context — Numbers 22:37
And Balak said to Balaam, “Did I not surely send to summon you? Why did you not come to me? Indeed, am I not able to honor you?”
About this coordinate
Numbers 22:37:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Numbers 22:37, so the Hebrew word שָׁלֹ֨חַ (shaloakh) 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.22.37.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.22.37.W5.S1) and character.