Numbers 25:5:6Num.25.5.W6TAB
אִ֗ישׁ
eesh
“each man”
- Transliteration
- EESH
- Extended
- EESH
- IPA
- /ˈʔiːʃ/
Meaning by language
- English
- each man
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot |
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The word
Word in context
- word
EESH
- phraseyour reading level
hir-GU EESH
- sentence
va-yo-MER mo-SHEH el-SHOF-tei yis-ra-EL hir-GU EESH a-na-SHAV ha-ni-tza-MI-dim le-va-AL-pe-OR
Exegesis
The distributive construction ish anashav {אִישׁ אֲנָשָׁיו | ʾîš ʾă-nā-šā-v} ‘each man his men’ assigns each judge responsibility for his own followers.
In context — Numbers 25:5
And Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Kill each man his men who have joined themselves to Baal of Peor .”
About this coordinate
Numbers 25:5:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Numbers 25:5, so the Hebrew word אִ֗ישׁ (eesh) 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.25.5.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.25.5.W6.S1) and character.