2 Samuel 23:4:82 Sam.23.4.W8TAB
מִמָּטָ֖ר
mimmatar
“from rain”
- Transliteration
- mim-ma-TAR
- Extended
- mihm-mah-TAAR
- IPA
- /mimmaːˈtˤaːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- from rain
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
mim-ma-TAR
- phraseyour reading level
min-NO-ga mim-ma-TAR
- clause
BO-ker LO a-VOT min-NO-ga mim-ma-TAR DE-she me-E-rets
- sentence
u-khe-OR BO-ker yiz-RAKH-sha-mesh BO-ker LO a-VOT min-NO-ga mim-ma-TAR DE-she me-E-rets
Exegesis
The prepositional chain minnōgāh mimmāṭār {מִנֹּ֥גַהּ מִמָּטָ֖ר | minnōgāh mimmāṭār} ‘from brightness from rain’ conveys causal sequence, culminating in dešě mê’āreṣ {דֶּ֥שֶׁא מֵאָֽרֶץ | dešě mê’āreṣ} ‘grass from earth’. The progression from light to growth and the parallelism enhance the vivid natural metaphor.
In context — 2 Samuel 23:4
And he shall be like the light of morning when the sun shines on a cloudless dawn; from the brightness after rain comes grass from the earth.
About this coordinate
2 Samuel 23:4:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of 2 Samuel 23:4, so the Hebrew word מִמָּטָ֖ר (mimmatar) 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.23.4.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Sam.23.4.W8.S1) and character.