2 Samuel 14:20:172 Sam.14.20.W17TAB
בָּאָֽרֶץ׃
baarets
“in the land or on the earth”
- Transliteration
- ba-A-rets
- Extended
- baa-AH-rehts
- IPA
- /baːˈʔaːrɛts/
Meaning by language
- English
- in the land or on the earth
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tsade Sofit | final form of Tsade — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
ba-A-rets
- phraseyour reading level
et-kal-a-SHER ba-A-rets
- clause
va-do-NI kha-KHAM ke-khokh-MAT mal-AKH ha-e-lo-HIM la-da-AT et-kal-a-SHER ba-A-rets
- sentence
le-va-a-VUR sa-BEV et-pe-NE ha-da-VAR a-SA av-de-KHA yo-AV et-ha-da-VAR ha-ZE va-do-NI kha-KHAM ke-khokh-MAT mal-AKH ha-e-lo-HIM la-da-AT et-kal-a-SHER ba-A-rets
Exegesis
Finally, the infinitive lada’at {לָדַעַת | lā-da‘-at ‘to know’} expresses purpose, linked to the relative clause et-kol-asher ba-aretz {אֶת־כָּל־אֲשֶׁר בָּאָרֶץ | ’et-kōl ’ă-šer bā-’ā-reṣ ‘all that is in the land’}, emphasizing the breadth of divine-like knowledge.
Root and etymology
’-r-ṣ
“earth, land”
In context — 2 Samuel 14:20
For the sake of turning the course of this matter, your servant Joab did this thing. And my lord is wise, like the wisdom of an angel of God , to know all that is in the land .
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 14:20:17 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 17 of 2 Samuel 14:20, so the Hebrew word בָּאָֽרֶץ׃ (baarets) 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 Sam.14.20.W17, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.14.20.W17.S1) and character.