Genesis 14:10:11Gen.14.10.W11TAB
הֶ֥רָה
hera
“to the hill country”
- Transliteration
- HE-ra
- Extended
- HEH-rah
- IPA
- /ˈhɛ.raː/
Meaning by language
- English
- to the hill country
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
HE-ra
- phraseyour reading level
HE-ra na-SU
- clause
ve-ha-nish-a-REEM HE-ra na-SU
- sentence
ve-E-mek ha-si-DIM be-e-ROT be-e-ROT khe-MAR va-ya-NU-su me-lekh-se-DOM va-a-mo-RA va-yip-lu-SHA-ma ve-ha-nish-a-REEM HE-ra na-SU
Exegesis
The participle vehanisharim {וְהַנִּשְׁאָרִ֖ים | wə-han-niš-ʾā-rîm} ‘the ones remaining’ introduces survivors, and the perfect nasu {נָּֽסוּ | nā-sû} ‘they fled’ with directional herah {הֶ֥רָה | he-rāh} ‘to the hill country’ marks the decisive escape. This structure maintains the Hebrew flow of successive vav-consecutive clauses and highlights the shift from disaster to deliverance in the elevated hill country.
Root and etymology
Rooth-r-r
“mountain, hill”
In context — Genesis 14:10
Now the valley of Siddim had many pits of bitumen; when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell in there, and the rest fled to the hill country.
About this coordinate
Genesis 14:10:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of Genesis 14:10, so the Hebrew word הֶ֥רָה (hera) 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 Gen.14.10.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.14.10.W11.S1) and character.