1 Samuel 14:4:21 Sam.14.4.W2TAB
הַֽמַּעְבְּר֗וֹת
hammaverot
“the passes”
- Transliteration
- ham-ma-VE-rot
- Extended
- hahm-mah-veh-ROHT
- IPA
- /ham.maʕ.vəˈroːt/
Meaning by language
- English
- the passes
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ham-ma-VE-rot
- phraseyour reading level
u-VEIN ham-ma-VE-rot
- clause
u-VEIN ham-ma-VE-rot a-SHER bik-KESH yo-na-TAN la-a-VOR al-ma-TSAV pe-lish-TIM shen-has-SE-la me-ha-E-ver miz-ZE ve-shen-has-SE-la me-ha-E-ver miz-ZE
- sentence
u-VEIN ham-ma-VE-rot a-SHER bik-KESH yo-na-TAN la-a-VOR al-ma-TSAV pe-lish-TIM shen-has-SE-la me-ha-E-ver miz-ZE ve-shen-has-SE-la me-ha-E-ver miz-ZE ve-SHEM ha-e-KHAD bo-TSETS ve-SHEM ha-e-KHAD SE-ne
Exegesis
Next the definite feminine plural noun hamma‘berot {הַֽמַּעְבְּר֗וֹת | ha-ma‘b-bə-rōṯ} ‘the passes’ establishes the location.
Root and etymology
ע־ב־ר
“to pass over”
In context — 1 Samuel 14:4
And between the passes that Jonathan sought to cross to the Philistine outpost, there was a rock promontory on one side and another on the other; the one was called Bozez, and the other was called Seneh.
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 14:4:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of 1 Samuel 14:4, so the Hebrew word הַֽמַּעְבְּר֗וֹת (hammaverot) 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.14.4.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.14.4.W2.S1) and character.