1 Samuel 14:2:91 Sam.14.2.W9TAB
וְהָעָם֙
vehaam
“and the people”
- Transliteration
- ve-ha-AM
- Extended
- veh-haa-AHM
- IPA
- /vəhaˈʕaːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- and the 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 | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-ha-AM
- clause
ve-ha-AM a-SHER im-O ke-SHESH me-OT ISH
- sentence
ve-sha-UL yo-SHEV bik-TSE ha-giv-A TA-khat ha-rim-MON a-SHER be-mig-RON ve-ha-AM a-SHER im-O ke-SHESH me-OT ISH
Exegesis
In the next clause, the conjunction veha’am asher immo {וְהָעָם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עִמּ֔וֹ | wə-hā-‘ām ’ă-šer ‘im-mō} ‘and the people who are with him’ links a descriptive participial relative clause to Saul’s group.
Root and etymology
ʿ-mayin–mem
“people, nation”
In context — 1 Samuel 14:2
And Saul was sitting at the edge of the hill under the pomegranate tree which is in Migron, and the people who were with him were about six hundred men.
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 14:2:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of 1 Samuel 14:2, so the Hebrew word וְהָעָם֙ (vehaam) 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.14.2.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.14.2.W9.S1) and character.