Exodus 16:3:12Exod.16.3.W12TAB

הַבָּשָׂ֔ר

habasar

the meat

Transliteration
ha-ba-SAR
Extended
hah-bah-SAAR
IPA
/hab.baˈsaːr/

Meaning by language

English
the meat

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
הַ + בָּ + שָׂ֔ר
ha + ba + sar
habasar

Alphabet Analysis

Heh as in house; silent at word end
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Qametslong 'ah'
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot
Qametslong 'ah'
Reshr guttural, like the French r

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Word in context

  1. word

    ha-ba-SAR

  2. phraseyour reading level

    al-SIR ha-ba-SAR

  3. clause

    va-yom-RU a-le-HEM be-NEI yis-ra-EL mi-yit-TEN moo-TE-noo ve-yad-ye-ho-VAH be-E-rets mits-RA-yim be-shiv-TE-noo al-SIR ha-ba-SAR be-okh-LE-noo LE-khem la-SO-va

  4. sentence

    va-yom-RU a-le-HEM be-NEI yis-ra-EL mi-yit-TEN moo-TE-noo ve-yad-ye-ho-VAH be-E-rets mits-RA-yim be-shiv-TE-noo al-SIR ha-ba-SAR be-okh-LE-noo LE-khem la-SO-va ki-ho-tse-TEM o-TA-noo el-ham-mid-BAR ha-ZE le-ha-MIT et-kol-hak-ka-HAL ha-ZE ba-ra-AV

Exegesis

Temporal framing appears in the infinitive clauses beshivtenu {בְּשִׁבְתֵּנוּ | bə-šiv-tê-nû} and al-sir habasar {עַל־סִיר הַבָּשָׂר | ʿal-sîr ha-bā-śār}, ‘when we sat by the meat pot,’ and beokhleinu lechem lasova {בְּאָכְלֵנוּ לֶחֶם לָשֹׂבַע | bə-ʾā-ḵ-lê-nû le-ḥem lā-śō-ḇaʿ}, ‘when we ate bread to satiety’.

Root and etymology

b-s-rBet–Shin–Resh

flesh, meat

In contextExodus 16:3

And the sons of Israel said to them, “If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pot of meat and ate bread until we were full. But you have brought us out into this wilderness to make this entire assembly die in famine.”

About this coordinate

Exodus 16:3:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Exodus 16:3, so the Hebrew word הַבָּשָׂ֔ר (habasar) 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 Exod.16.3.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.16.3.W12.S1) and character.