2 Samuel 15:4:52 Sam.15.4.W5TAB
בָּאָ֑רֶץ
baarets
“in the land”
- Transliteration
- ba-A-rets
- Extended
- baa-AH-rehts
- IPA
- /baːˈʔaː.rɛts/
Meaning by language
- English
- in the land
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
- clause
va-YO-mer av-sha-LOM mi-ye-si-ME-ni sho-FET ba-A-rets
- sentence
va-YO-mer av-sha-LOM mi-ye-si-ME-ni sho-FET ba-A-rets ve-a-LAI ya-VO kal-ISH a-she-re-yih-ye-LO-RIV u-mish-PAT ve-hits-dak-TIV
Exegesis
The participle shofet {שֹׁפֵ֖ט | šōp̄ēṭ} ‘judge’ designates the office, and the prepositional phrase ba‘aretz {בָּאָ֑רֶץ | bā-ʾāreṣ} ‘in the land’ defines the jurisdiction.
In context — 2 Samuel 15:4
And Absalom said, “Who will make me judge in the land, that every man who has a dispute or a case might come to me, and I would declare him right.”
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 15:4:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of 2 Samuel 15:4, so the Hebrew word בָּאָ֑רֶץ (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.15.4.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.15.4.W5.S1) and character.