Deuteronomy 13:16:6Deut.13.16.W6TABWLC Deuteronomy 13:17

בָּאֵשׁ

baesh

with fire

Transliteration
ba-ESH
Extended
baa-ESH
IPA
/baːˈʔeʃ/

Meaning by language

English
with fire

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
בָּ + אֵשׁ
ba + esh
baesh

Alphabet Analysis

Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Qametslong 'ah'
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot

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Word in context

  1. word

    ba-ESH

  2. sentence

    ve-ET-KOL-she-la-LAH tik-BOTS el-to-KHAH re-kho-VAH ve-sa-RAF-ta ba-ESH et-ha-IR ve-ET-KOL-she-la-LAH ka-LIL la-ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HEY-kha ve-ha-ye-TAH TEL o-LAM LO ti-va-NEH OD

Exegesis

The coordinated verbs vesarafta ba’esh {וְשָׂרַפְתָּ בָּאֵשׁ | wə-śā-rap-tā bā-ʾēš} intensify destruction by naming both act and means.

In contextDeuteronomy 13:16

You shall gather all its plunder into the middle of its open square, and you shall burn the city and all its plunder wholly to the LORD your God . It shall be a heap forever and shall never be rebuilt.

About this coordinate

Deuteronomy 13:16:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Deuteronomy 13:16, so the Hebrew word בָּאֵשׁ (baesh) 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 Deut.13.16.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.13.16.W6.S1) and character.