2 Chronicles 2:17:62 Chr.2.17.W6TABWLC 2 Chronicles 2:16

בְּאֶ֣רֶץ

beerets

in the land of

Transliteration
be-E-rets
Extended
beh-EH-rehts
IPA
/bəˈʔɛrɛts/

Meaning by language

English
in the land of

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
בְּ + אֶ֣ + רֶץ
be + e + rets
beerets

Alphabet Analysis

Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Segholshort 'eh' as in met
Reshr guttural, like the French r
Segholshort 'eh' as in met
Tsade Sofitfinal form of Tsade — at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    be-E-rets

  2. phraseyour reading level

    a-SHER be-E-rets yis-ra-EL

  3. clause

    va-yis-POR she-lo-MO KAL-ha-a-na-SHIM ha-ge-RIM a-SHER be-E-rets yis-ra-EL a-kha-RE has-se-FAR a-SHER se-fa-RAM da-VID a-VIV

  4. sentence

    va-yis-POR she-lo-MO KAL-ha-a-na-SHIM ha-ge-RIM a-SHER be-E-rets yis-ra-EL a-kha-RE has-se-FAR a-SHER se-fa-RAM da-VID a-VIV va-yim-ma-TSE-u me-AT va-kha-mish-SIM E-lef u-she-LO-shet a-la-FIM ve-SHESH me-OT

Exegesis

Shlomo {שְׁלֹמֹה | šə-lō-mō} serves as subject, followed by the noun phrase kol-haenoshim hagerim {כָּל־הָאֱנוֹשִׁים הַגֵּרִים | kāl-hā-ʾĕ-nō-šîm hā-gê-rîm} ‘all the men, the sojourners’, which is specified by the relative clause asher berets yisrael {אֲשֶׁר בְּאֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל | ʾă-šer bə-ʾe-reṣ yiś-rā-ʾĕl}, defining geographic scope.

In context2 Chronicles 2:17

And Solomon counted all the men, the foreigners who were in the land of Israel after the census which his father David had conducted, and they were found to be 153,600.

About this coordinate

2 Chronicles 2:17:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of 2 Chronicles 2:17, so the Hebrew word בְּאֶ֣רֶץ (beerets) 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 2 Chr.2.17.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.2.17.W6.S1) and character.