Deuteronomy 22:23:9Deut.22.23.W9TAB
בָּעִיר
bair
“in the city”
- Transliteration
- ba-IR
- Extended
- bah-EER
- IPA
- /baˈʕiːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- in the city
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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Word in context
- word
ba-IR
- sentence
ki yih-YEH na-a-RA ve-tu-LA me-o-ra-SA le-ISH u-me-tsa-AH ISH ba-IR ve-sha-KHAV im-MAH
Exegesis
The locative bair {בָּעִיר | bā’îr} ‘in the city’ specifies the setting. This asyndetic listing conveys the legal facts that the following verse resolves in the apodosis.
In context — Deuteronomy 22:23
If there is a young woman, a virgin , who is betrothed to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her;
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 22:23:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Deuteronomy 22:23, so the Hebrew word בָּעִיר (bair) 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.22.23.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.22.23.W9.S1) and character.