2 Chronicles 20:24:42 Chr.20.24.W4TAB
לַמִּדְבָּ֑ר
lammidbar
“of the wilderness”
- Transliteration
- lam-mid-BAR
- Extended
- lahm-mihd-BAAR
- IPA
- /lam.midˈbaːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- of the wilderness
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
lam-mid-BAR
- clause
vi-ye-hu-DA BA al-ha-mits-PE lam-mid-BAR
- sentence
vi-ye-hu-DA BA al-ha-mits-PE lam-mid-BAR va-yif-NU el-he-ha-MON ve-hin-NAM pe-ga-RIM no-fe-LIM AR-tsa ve-EN pe-lei-TA
Exegesis
The compound prepositional phrase al-hamitzpeh la-midbar {עַל־הַמִּצְפֶּ֖ה לַמִּדְבָּ֑ר | ʿal hammîṣpēh lammidbār} precisely locates the vantage point “upon the lookout to the wilderness.”
Root and etymology
d-b-rdalet–bet–resh
“wilderness”
In context — 2 Chronicles 20:24
And Judah came to the watchtower overlooking the wilderness, and they turned toward the multitude, and behold, they were corpses lying on the ground; and there was no survivor .
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 20:24:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of 2 Chronicles 20:24, so the Hebrew word לַמִּדְבָּ֑ר (lammidbar) 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.20.24.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.20.24.W4.S1) and character.