Ezekiel 20:18:3Ezek.20.18.W3TAB
בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר
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-O-MAR el-be-NE-hem ba-mid-BAR be-khu-KO-te a-VO-te-khem al-te-LE-khu ve-ET-mish-pe-TE-hem al-tish-MO-ru
- sentence
va-O-MAR el-be-NE-hem ba-mid-BAR be-khu-KO-te a-VO-te-khem al-te-LE-khu ve-ET-mish-pe-TE-hem al-tish-MO-ru u-ve-gil-lu-LE-hem al-tit-tam-MA-u
Exegesis
The prepositional phrase el-bneihem {אֶל־בְּנֵיהֶם | ’el-bə-nê-hem} ‘to their children’ shifts address to a new generation, and ba-midbar {בַּמִּדְבָּר | ba-mid-bār} ‘in the wilderness’ locates the scene in Israel’s formative context.
Root and etymology
RootDalet, Bet, Resh
“to speak”
In context — Ezekiel 20:18
And I said to their children in the wilderness, “Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, and do not keep their ordinances, and do not defile yourselves with their idols.”
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 20:18:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Ezekiel 20:18, so the Hebrew word בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר (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.20.18.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.20.18.W3.S1) and character.