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Ifכִּיthere isיִהְיֶהa young woman,נַעֲרָהa virgin,בְתוּלָהengagedמְאֹרָשָׂהto a man,לְאִישׁand a manוּ אִישׁfinds herמְצָאָהּin the cityבָּעִירand liesוְשָׁכַבwith her,עִמָּהּ
Deuteronomy 22:23
Study it in the app“If there is a young woman, a virgin, engaged to a man, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Deuteronomy 22:23, word by word
- there isיִהְיֶהyihye
exist
To exist: "let there be light".
Where else “yihye” appears- a young womanנַעֲרָהnaara
girl
An unmarried female of marrying age.
Where else “naara” appears- a virginבְתוּלָהvetula
virgin
Young woman not yet married; virgin.
Where else “vetula” appears- engagedמְאֹרָשָׂהmeorasa
betroth
Betroth: a firm agreement made before the wedding.
Where else “meorasa” appears- to a manאִישׁish
man
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “ish” appears- finds herמְצָאָmetsaa
find
To come upon what one seeks, or something not expected.
Where else “metsaa” appears- in the cityעִירir
city
A settled place protected by a wall, with a gate and houses.
Where else “ir” appears- and liesשָׁכַבshachav
lie with
To lie with someone, have relations.
Where else “shachav” appears
The context
22If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel.
23 · This verse (above)
24then you shall bring out both of them to the gate of that city and stone them with stones so that they die: the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he humiliated his neighbor’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from among you.