Zechariah 14:18:17Zech.14.18.W17TAB
לָחֹ֖ג
lakhog
“to keep a festival”
- Transliteration
- la-KHOG
- Extended
- laa-KHOHG
- IPA
- /laːˈħoːɡ/
Meaning by language
- English
- to keep a festival
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Gimel | g as in good |
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The word
Word in context
- word
la-KHOG
- clause
ti-HE-ye ha-mag-ge-FA a-SHER yig-GOF ye-ho-VAH et-ha-go-YIM a-SHER LO ya-a-LU la-KHOG et-KHAG ha-suk-KOT
- sentence
ve-im-mish-pa-KHAT mits-ra-YIM lo-ta-a-LE ve-LO va-A ve-LO a-le-HEM ti-HE-ye ha-mag-ge-FA a-SHER yig-GOF ye-ho-VAH et-ha-go-YIM a-SHER LO ya-a-LU la-KHOG et-KHAG ha-suk-KOT
Exegesis
The final purpose clause asher lo yaalu la-chog et-chag ha-sukkot {אֲשֶׁר לֹא יַעֲלוּ לָחֹג אֶת־חַג הַסֻּכּֽוֹת | ă-šer lō ya-ʿă-lû lā-ḥôg ʾet-ḥăg ha-suk-kôtôt} ‘who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles’ uses the infinitive construct to express purpose.
Root and etymology
ḥ-g-g
“to celebrate, festival”
In context — Zechariah 14:18
And if the family of Egypt does not go up and does not come, there will be no rain upon them; there shall be upon them the plague which the LORD will strike upon the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles .
About this coordinate
Zechariah 14:18:17 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 17 of Zechariah 14:18, so the Hebrew word לָחֹ֖ג (lakhog) 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 Zech.14.18.W17, which extends further down to each syllable (Zech.14.18.W17.S1) and character.