בָּרִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔ים

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 בָּרִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔ים

   ba-ri-sho-NIM

   in the first ones or first days
2. clause🔊 והם וְהֵ֨מָּה הֻמְת֜וּ בִּימֵ֤י קָצִיר֙ בָּרִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔ים תחלת בִת‪ְחִלַּ֖ת קְצִ֥יר שְׂעֹרִֽים׃

   ve-hem ve-HE-ma hum-TE bi-ME ka-TSIR ba-ri-sho-NIM te-khe-let vit-he-khil-LAT ke-TSIR se-o-RIM

   and they and they were put to death in the days of harvest in the first ones or first days beginning of in the beginning of harvest of barleys
3. sentence🔊 וַֽיִּתְּנֵ֞ם בְּיַ֣ד הַגִּבְעֹנִ֗ים וַיֹּקִיעֻ֤ם בָּהָר֙ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה וַיִּפְּל֥וּ שבעתים שְׁבַעְתָּ֖ם יָ֑חַד והם וְהֵ֨מָּה הֻמְת֜וּ בִּימֵ֤י קָצִיר֙ בָּרִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔ים תחלת בִת‪ְחִלַּ֖ת קְצִ֥יר שְׂעֹרִֽים׃

   va-yit-NEM be-YAD ha-giv-o-NIM va-yo-ki-EM ba-HAR lif-NE ye-ho-VAH va-yip-LU she-va-tim she-vat-TAM YA-khad ve-hem ve-HE-ma hum-TE bi-ME ka-TSIR ba-ri-sho-NIM te-khe-let vit-he-khil-LAT ke-TSIR se-o-RIM

   and he gave them into the hand of the Gibeonites and they impaled them on the mountain before the LORD and they fell seven times the seven of them together and they and they were put to death in the days of harvest in the first ones or first days beginning of in the beginning of harvest of barleys

Exegesis

Final temporal layers bəyammê qaṣîr bārîšōnnîm biṯḥillāt qeṭṣîr seʿôrîm {בִּימֵי קָצִיר בָּרִאשֹׁנִים בִּתְחִלַּת קְצִיר שְׂעֹרִים | bi-ym-mê qa-ṣîr ba-ri-šō-nnîm bi-tḥil-lat qe-ṣir se-ʿō-rîm} ‘in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of the barley harvest’ reflect calendrical precision. English rendering shifts narrative vav-clauses into coordinated and subordinate structures, placing temporal modifiers at the end for clarity.