1 Samuel 17:12:171 Sam.17.12.W17TAB
בָּ֥א
ba
“going in or advanced”
- Transliteration
- BA
- Extended
- BAA
- IPA
- /bɔː/
Meaning by language
- English
- going in or advanced
Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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Word in context
- word
BA
- phraseyour reading level
BA ba-a-na-SHIM
- clause
ve-ha-ISH bi-ME sha-UL za-KEN BA ba-a-na-SHIM
- sentence
ve-da-VID ben-ISH e-fra-TI ha-ZE mi-BET LE-khem ye-hu-DA u-she-MO yi-SHAI ve-LO she-mo-NA va-NIM ve-ha-ISH bi-ME sha-UL za-KEN BA ba-a-na-SHIM
Exegesis
The adjective zaken {זָקֵ֖ן | zāqēn} ‘old’ precedes the perfect ba {בָּ֥א | bāʾ}, with the locative ba’anashim {בַאֲנָשִֽׁים | ba-ʾănāšîm} ‘among the men’, forming an idiomatic verbless clause (‘the man was old’). This construction is rendered as ‘he was old’ in the formal reconstruction and ‘he was an elderly man’ in the dynamic reconstruction, preserving the sense of advanced age without adding action.
Root and etymology
ts-b-ʾtsade–bet–aleph
“army, host”
In context — 1 Samuel 17:12
Now David was the son of this Ephrathite man from Bethlehem of Judah, whose name was Jesse ; he had eight sons, and in the days of Saul he was old .
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 17:12:17 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 17 of 1 Samuel 17:12, so the Hebrew word בָּ֥א (ba) 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.17.12.W17, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.17.12.W17.S1) and character.