Ezekiel 20:13:3Ezek.20.13.W3TAB
בַּמִּדְבָּ֗ר
bamidbar
“in the wilderness”
- Transliteration
- ba-mid-BAR
- Extended
- bah-mihd-BAAR
- IPA
- /bam.midˈbaːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- in the wilderness
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| 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
ba-mid-BAR
- clause
va-yam-RU-VI BEIT-yis-ra-EL ba-mid-BAR be-khu-ko-TAI LO-ha-la-KHU ve-et-mish-pa-TAI ma-A-SU a-SHER ya-a-SE o-TAM ha-a-DAM va-KHAI ba-HEM ve-et-shab-be-to-TAI khil-le-LU me-OD
- sentence
va-yam-RU-VI BEIT-yis-ra-EL ba-mid-BAR be-khu-ko-TAI LO-ha-la-KHU ve-et-mish-pa-TAI ma-A-SU a-SHER ya-a-SE o-TAM ha-a-DAM va-KHAI ba-HEM ve-et-shab-be-to-TAI khil-le-LU me-OD va-o-MAR lish-POKH kha-ma-TI a-le-HEM ba-mid-BAR le-khal-lo-TAM
Exegesis
The setting phrase ba-midbar {בַּמִּדְבָּר | bam-mid-bār} ‘in the wilderness’ recalls the Exodus testing.
The first-person judgment sequence concludes with wāʼōmar lə-šə-pōḵ ḥă-mā-tî ʿă-lê-hem bam-midbār lə-ḵal-lō-ṯām {וָאֹמַר לְשְׁפֹךְ חֲמָתִי עֲלֵיהֶם בַּמִּדְבָּר לְכַלּוֹתָם | wā-ʾō-mar lə-šə-pōḵ ḥă-mā-tî ʿă-lê-hem bam-mid-bār lə-ḵal-lō-ṯām} ‘then I said, “To pour out My wrath upon them in the wilderness to consume them,”’ highlighting YHWH’s threatened divine judgment.
Root and etymology
RootDalet, Bet, Resh
“to speak”
In context — Ezekiel 20:13
But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes , and they despised My judgments, which, if a man does them, he shall live by them; and they greatly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My wrath upon them in the wilderness to consume them.
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 20:13:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Ezekiel 20:13, so the Hebrew word בַּמִּדְבָּ֗ר (bamidbar) 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 Ezek.20.13.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.20.13.W3.S1) and character.