Exodus 18:5:8Exod.18.5.W8TAB
אֶל־הַמִּדְבָּ֗ר
elhammidbar
“to the wilderness”
- Transliteration
- el-ham-mid-BAR
- Extended
- el-hahm-mid-BAAR
- IPA
- /ʔel.ham.midˈbaːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- to the wilderness
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
el-ham-mid-BAR
- clause
el-ham-mid-BAR a-sher-HU kho-NEH SHAM HAR ha-e-lo-HIM
- sentence
va-ya-VO yit-RO kho-TEN mo-SHEH u-va-NAV ve-ish-TO el-mo-SHEH el-ham-mid-BAR a-sher-HU kho-NEH SHAM HAR ha-e-lo-HIM
Exegesis
The repeated prepositional structure ʾel moshe, ʾel hammidbār {אֶל־מֹשֶׁה, אֶל־הַמִּדְבָּר | ʾel-mō-šeh, ʾel-ham-mîdbār} ‘to Moses, to the wilderness’ narrows focus from person to place.
Root and etymology
d-b-rdaleth–beth–resh
“to speak, arrange”
In context — Exodus 18:5
And Jethro , the father-in-law of Moses, came with his sons and his wife to Moses, to the wilderness where he was encamping at the mountain of God .
About this coordinate
Exodus 18:5:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Exodus 18:5, so the Hebrew word אֶל־הַמִּדְבָּ֗ר (elhammidbar) 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.18.5.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.18.5.W8.S1) and character.