Ezekiel 20:17:8Ezek.20.17.W8TAB
בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃
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
ve-LO-a-SI-ti o-TAM ka-LA ba-mid-BAR
- sentence
va-ta-KHAS e-NI a-le-HEM mish-kha-TAM ve-LO-a-SI-ti o-TAM ka-LA ba-mid-BAR
Exegesis
The setting bamidbar {בַּמִּדְבָּר | ba-mmid-bār} ‘in the wilderness’ recalls Israel’s desert testing. The English order mirrors the Hebrew sequence—compassion, protective gaze, averted destruction, and desert context—preserving the verse’s theological tension.
Root and etymology
ד־ב־רdalet–bet–resh
“wilderness, desert”
In context — Ezekiel 20:17
But I had compassion—my eye spared them—from destroying them, and I did not make them perish in the wilderness .
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 20:17:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Ezekiel 20:17, so the Hebrew word בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃ (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.20.17.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.20.17.W8.S1) and character.