Genesis 14:10:3Gen.14.10.W3TAB
בּֽ͏ֶאֱרֹ֤ת
beerot
“pits”
- Transliteration
- be-e-ROT
- Extended
- beh-eh-ROHT
- IPA
- /bɛ.ʔɛ̆.ˈroːt/
Meaning by language
- English
- pits
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hateph Seghol | reduced 'eh' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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Word in context
- word
be-e-ROT
- phraseyour reading level
be-e-ROT be-e-ROT
- clause
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
- 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 phrase beerot beerot chemar {בּֽ͏ֶאֱרֹ֤ת בֶּאֱרֹת֙ חֵמָ֔ר | bə-ʾĕ-rōṯ bə-ʾĕ-rōṯ ḥē-mār} ‘pits, pits of bitumen’ uses repetition for intensification, portraying hazardous terrain. A nominal clause lacking a verb in Hebrew is rendered with “had” or “was filled with” in English to convey the descriptive sense.
Root and etymology
b-w-ʾ
“to come, to enter”
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 14:10:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Genesis 14:10, so the Hebrew word בּֽ͏ֶאֱרֹ֤ת (beerot) 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.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.14.10.W3.S1) and character.