2 Chronicles 8:4:32 Chr.8.4.W3TAB
בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר
bamidbahr
“in the wilderness”
- Transliteration
- ba-mid-BAHR
- Extended
- bah-mihd-BAAR
- IPA
- /bam.midˈbaːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- in the wilderness
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| 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
ba-mid-BAHR
- clause
va-yi-VEN et-tad-MOR ba-mid-BAHR
- sentence
va-yi-VEN et-tad-MOR ba-mid-BAHR ve-ET kol-a-RE ha-mis-ke-NOT a-SHER ba-NA ba-kha-MAT
Exegesis
The particle et {אֶת | ʾet} marks Tadmor {תַּדְמֹר | ṭaḏmôr} as the definite object, then the locative bamidbar {בַּמִּדְבָּר | bammidbar} ‘in the wilderness’ situates the action.
Root and etymology
d-b-rdalet–bet–resh
“wilderness, uncultivated land”
In context — 2 Chronicles 8:4
And he built Tadmor in the wilderness and all the store-cities, which he had built in Hamath .
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 8:4:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of 2 Chronicles 8:4, so the Hebrew word בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר (bamidbahr) 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.8.4.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.8.4.W3.S1) and character.