Numbers 25:5:7Num.25.5.W7TAB
אֲנָשָׁ֛יו
anashav
“his men”
- Transliteration
- a-na-SHAV
- Extended
- a-nah-SHAV
- IPA
- /ʔănaˈʃav/
Meaning by language
- English
- his men
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
a-na-SHAV
- 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 25:5:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Numbers 25:5, so the Hebrew word אֲנָשָׁ֛יו (anashav) 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.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.25.5.W7.S1) and character.