Genesis 14:6:8Gen.14.6.W8TAB
עַל־הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃
alhamidbar
“by the wilderness”
- Transliteration
- al-ha-mid-BAR
- Extended
- ahl-hah-mihd-BAAR
- IPA
- /ʕal.ham.mið.ˈbaːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- by the wilderness
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| 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
al-ha-mid-BAR
- clause
AD EL pa-RAN a-SHER al-ha-mid-BAR
- sentence
ve-et-ha-kho-RI be-har-RAM se-IR AD EL pa-RAN a-SHER al-ha-mid-BAR
Exegesis
The preposition ad {עַד | ʿaḏ} ‘up to’ sets the campaign’s boundary at eil paran {אֵיל פָּארָן | ʾêl pā-rān}, and the clause asher al ha-midbar {אֲשֶׁר עַל־הַמִּדְבָּר | ʾă-šer ʿal-ham-mid-bār} ‘which is by the wilderness’ locates El Paran adjacent to the desert. Hebrew presents this information through a chain of prepositional and appositional phrases, which the English renders sequentially to preserve the geographic progression.
Root and etymology
Rootd-b-r
“wilderness, pasture land”
In context — Genesis 14:6
And they struck the Horites in their hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is by the wilderness.
About this coordinate
Genesis 14:6:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Genesis 14:6, so the Hebrew word עַל־הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃ (alhamidbar) 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.14.6.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.14.6.W8.S1) and character.