1 Kings 20:16:21 Kgs.20.16.W2TAB
בַּֽצָּהֳרָ֑יִם
batsoharayim
“at noon”
- Transliteration
- ba-tso-ha-ra-YIM
- Extended
- bah-tsoh-hah-rah-YEEM
- IPA
- /bat.t͡sɔ̆haːraːˈjim/
Meaning by language
- English
- at noon
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Hateph Qamets | reduced 'oh' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ba-tso-ha-ra-YIM
- clause
va-ye-tsE-U ba-tso-ha-ra-YIM
- sentence
va-ye-tsE-U ba-tso-ha-ra-YIM u-ven-ha-DAD sho-TE shi-KOR ba-su-KOT HU ve-ham-me-la-KHIM she-lo-SHIM-u-she-NA-YIM ME-lekh o-ZER o-TO
Exegesis
The narrative begins with the vav-consecutive verb vayetse’u {וַיֵּצְא֖וּ | wayyēṣə’û} ‘and they went out’, which sets the action at the temporal adverbial batzahorayim {בַּֽצָּהֳרָ֑יִם | baṣāhō·rāyim} ‘noon’—the dual form intensifying focus on midday.
Root and etymology
h-r-mheh–resh–mem
“mountain, hill”
In context — 1 Kings 20:16
And they went out at noon , and Ben-Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the tents —he and the thirty-two kings assisting him.
About this coordinate
1 Kings 20:16:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of 1 Kings 20:16, so the Hebrew word בַּֽצָּהֳרָ֑יִם (batsoharayim) 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.20.16.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.20.16.W2.S1) and character.