Numbers 23:26:5Num.23.26.W5TAB

הֲלֹ֗א

halo

Did not

Transliteration
ha-LO
Extended
hah-LOH
IPA
/haˈloː/

Meaning by language

English
Did not

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Result
הֲ + לֹ֗א
ha + lo
halo

Alphabet Analysis

Heh as in house; silent at word end
Hateph Patachreduced 'ah'
Lamedl as in law
Holemlong 'oh' as in go
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points

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Word in context

  1. word

    ha-LO

  2. clause

    ha-LO di-bar-TI e-lei-KHA le-MOR KOL a-sher-ye-da-BER Ye-ho-VAH o-TO e-e-SEH

  3. sentence

    va-YA-an bil-AM va-YO-mer el-ba-LAK ha-LO di-bar-TI e-lei-KHA le-MOR KOL a-sher-ye-da-BER Ye-ho-VAH o-TO e-e-SEH

Exegesis

The interrogative particle haloʾ {הֲלֹא | hālōʾ} marks a rhetorical question, “Did I not …?”

In contextNumbers 23:26

And Balaam answered and said to Balak, “Did I not tell you, ‘All that the LORD will speak , that I will do’?”

About this coordinate

Numbers 23:26:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Numbers 23:26, so the Hebrew word הֲלֹ֗א (halo) 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.23.26.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.23.26.W5.S1) and character.