Ezekiel 20:21:24Ezek.20.21.W24TAB
בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃
bammidbar
“in the wilderness”
- Transliteration
- bam-mid-BAR
- Extended
- bahm-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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Word in context
- word
bam-mid-BAR
- sentence
va-yam-RU-VI ha-ba-NIM be-khu-kot-TAI lo-ha-la-KHU ve-et-mish-pa-TAI lo-sham-RU la-a-SOT o-TAM a-SHER ya-a-SE o-TAM ha-a-DAM va-KHAI ba-HEM et-shab-be-tot-TAI khi-le-LU va-o-MAR lish-POKH kha-ma-TI a-LE-hem le-khal-LOT a-PI BAM bam-mid-BAR
Exegesis
The Piel infinitive lechalot api {לְכַלּוֹת אַפִּי | lə-ḵal-lōt ʾap-pî} ‘to finish my anger’ underscores the intensity of God’s judgment, and the locative bamidbar {בַּמִּדְבָּר | bam-mid-bār} ‘in the wilderness’ recalls Israel’s historic rebellions.
Root and etymology
RootDalet, Bet, Resh
“to speak”
In context — Ezekiel 20:21
But the children rebelled against Me ; they did not walk in My statutes, and they did not keep My judgments to perform them—those which, if a person does, he will live by them ; they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My wrath upon them to bring My anger to an end in the wilderness.
About this coordinate
Ezekiel 20:21:24 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 24 of Ezekiel 20:21, so the Hebrew word בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃ (bammidbar) 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.20.21.W24, which extends further down to each syllable (Ezek.20.21.W24.S1) and character.