Exodus 18:3:12Exod.18.3.W12TAB
בְּאֶ֖רֶץ
beerets
“in a land”
- Transliteration
- be-E-rets
- Extended
- beh-EH-rets
- IPA
- /bəˈʔɛ.rɛts/
Meaning by language
- English
- in a land
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tsade Sofit | final form of Tsade — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
be-E-rets
- clause
a-SHER SHEM ha-e-KHAD ger-SHOM KI a-MAR GER ha-YI-ti be-E-rets na-khri-YA
- sentence
ve-ET she-NEI va-NE-ha a-SHER SHEM ha-e-KHAD ger-SHOM KI a-MAR GER ha-YI-ti be-E-rets na-khri-YA
Exegesis
The prepositional phrase b’erets nokhriyah {בְּאֶרֶץ נָכְרִיָּה | bə-ʾe-reṣ nō-ḵri-yāh} ‘in a foreign land’ completes the clause, with nokhriyah intensifying the sense of alien residence.
Root and etymology
b-w-ʾbet–vav–aleph
“to come”
In context — Exodus 18:3
And her two sons, of whom the name of the one was Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land .”
About this coordinate
Exodus 18:3:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Exodus 18:3, so the Hebrew word בְּאֶ֖רֶץ (beerets) 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.18.3.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.18.3.W12.S1) and character.