1 Kings 13:28:51 Kgs.13.28.W5TAB
בַּדֶּ֔רֶךְ
baderekh
“on the road”
- Transliteration
- ba-DER-ekh
- Extended
- bah-DER-ehkh
- IPA
- /badˈdɛrɛx/
Meaning by language
- English
- on the road
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ba-DER-ekh
- phraseyour reading level
mush-LE-khet ba-DER-ekh
- clause
va-YE-lekh va-yim-TSA et-niv-la-TO mush-LE-khet ba-DER-ekh va-kha-MOR ve-ha-ar-YE ohm-DIM EH-tsel ha-ne-ve-LA
- sentence
va-YE-lekh va-yim-TSA et-niv-la-TO mush-LE-khet ba-DER-ekh va-kha-MOR ve-ha-ar-YE ohm-DIM EH-tsel ha-ne-ve-LA lo-a-KHAL ha-ar-YE et-ha-ne-ve-LA ve-LO sha-VAR et-ha-kha-MOR
Exegesis
The passive participle mušlekhet {מֻשְׁלֶ֣כֶת | mušlekhet} functions circumstantially to describe the state of the corpse, while the prepositional phrase ba-dereḵ {בַּדֶּ֔רֶךְ | ba-dereḵ} specifies its location.
Root and etymology
consonantsdalet–resh–kaf
“way, path”
In context — 1 Kings 13:28
And he went and found his corpse thrown on the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside the corpse. The lion had not eaten the corpse, nor had he mauled the donkey.
About this coordinate
1 Kings 13:28:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of 1 Kings 13:28, so the Hebrew word בַּדֶּ֔רֶךְ (baderekh) 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 Kgs.13.28.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.13.28.W5.S1) and character.