1 Kings 19:15:71 Kgs.19.15.W7TAB
מִדְבַּ֣רָה
midbara
“toward the wilderness”
- Transliteration
- mid-ba-RA
- Extended
- mihd-bah-RAA
- IPA
- /midbaˈraː/
Meaning by language
- English
- toward the wilderness
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
mid-ba-RA
- phraseyour reading level
mid-ba-RA dam-MA-sek
- clause
va-YO-mer Ye-ho-VAH e-LAV LEKH SHUV le-dar-KHA mid-ba-RA dam-MA-sek
- sentence
va-YO-mer Ye-ho-VAH e-LAV LEKH SHUV le-dar-KHA mid-ba-RA dam-MA-sek u-va-TA u-ma-SHAKH-ta et-kha-za-EL le-ME-lekh al-a-RAM
Exegesis
The construct chain ledarkkha midbarah {לְדַרְכְּךָ מִדְבָּרָה | lə-ḏar-kə-ḵā mid-bā-rā} indicates directional movement ‘by Your way wilderness’, completed by the proper noun dammaseq {דַמָּשֶׂק | dam-mā-seq} ‘Damascus’.
Root and etymology
d-b-rdalet–bet–resh
“wilderness, desert”
In context — 1 Kings 19:15
And the LORD said to him, “Go, return by your way to the wilderness toward Damascus, and when you come, you shall anoint Hazael as king over Aram.”
About this coordinate
1 Kings 19:15:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of 1 Kings 19:15, so the Hebrew word מִדְבַּ֣רָה (midbara) 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.19.15.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.19.15.W7.S1) and character.