1 Samuel 13:5:111 Sam.13.5.W11TAB
וְעָ֕ם
veam
“and people”
- Transliteration
- ve-AM
- Extended
- veh-AAM
- IPA
- /vəˈʕaːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- and people
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Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
ve-AM
- clause
u-fe-lish-TIM ne-es-fe-U le-hil-la-KHEM im-yis-ra-EL she-lo-SHIM E-lef RE-khev ve-SHE-shet a-la-FIM pa-ra-SHIM ve-AM ka-KHOL a-SHER al-se-FAT-ha-YAM la-ROV
- sentence
u-fe-lish-TIM ne-es-fe-U le-hil-la-KHEM im-yis-ra-EL she-lo-SHIM E-lef RE-khev ve-SHE-shet a-la-FIM pa-ra-SHIM ve-AM ka-KHOL a-SHER al-se-FAT-ha-YAM la-ROV va-ya-a-LU va-ya-kha-NU be-mikh-MAS kid-MAT BET A-ven
Exegesis
The simile ve-am kakhol {וְעָם כַּחוֹל | wə-ʿām ka-ḥôl} ‘and people as sand’ employs the relative pronoun asher {אֲשֶׁר | ʾă-šer} plus the prepositional phrase al-sefat-hayam {עַל־שְׂפַת־הַיָּם | ʿal sə-p̄at ha-yām} ‘on the shore of the sea’ to indicate vastness.
Root and etymology
Rootayin–mem
“people”
In context — 1 Samuel 13:5
And the Philistines assembled to fight with Israel, with thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, and a host as numerous as the sand along the shore of the sea. They advanced and encamped at Michmash, to the east of Beth Aven .
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 13:5:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of 1 Samuel 13:5, so the Hebrew word וְעָ֕ם (veam) 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 Sam.13.5.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.13.5.W11.S1) and character.