1 Chronicles 21:14:31 Chr.21.14.W3TAB
דֶּ֖בֶר
dever
“a plague”
- Transliteration
- DE-ver
- Extended
- DEH-veh r
- IPA
- /ˈdɛ.vɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- a plague
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
DE-ver
- clause
va-yit-TEN ye-ho-VAH DE-ver be-yis-ra-EL
- sentence
va-yit-TEN ye-ho-VAH DE-ver be-yis-ra-EL va-yip-POL mi-yis-ra-EL shiv-e-IM E-lef ISH
Exegesis
The noun dever {דֶּבֶר | dəver} ‘plague’ signals divine judgment.
Root and etymology
d-b-rdalet–bet–resh
“to destroy, plague”
In context — 1 Chronicles 21:14
And the LORD sent a plague in Israel, and seventy thousand men fell from Israel.
About this coordinate
1 Chronicles 21:14:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of 1 Chronicles 21:14, so the Hebrew word דֶּ֖בֶר (dever) 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 1 Chr.21.14.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Chr.21.14.W3.S1) and character.