Genesis 18:9:8Gen.18.9.W8TAB
בָאֹֽהֶל׃
baohel
“in the tent”
- Transliteration
- ba-O-hel
- Extended
- bah-OH-hehl
- IPA
- /ba.ˈʔoː.hɛl/
Meaning by language
- English
- in the tent
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Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Lamed | l as in law |
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Word in context
- word
ba-O-hel
- phraseyour reading level
hin-NEH ba-O-hel
- clause
va-YO-mer hin-NEH ba-O-hel
- sentence
va-yom-RU e-LAV ai-YEH sa-RA ish-TE-kha va-YO-mer hin-NEH ba-O-hel
Exegesis
The final prepositional phrase ba'ohel {בָאֹהֶל | bā-ʾō-hel} completes the response by indicating Sarah’s location, a straightforward syntactic structure that the formal version preserves and the dynamic version renders with conversational flow.
In context — Genesis 18:9
They inquired of Abraham, “Where is Sarah , your wife?” And he answered, “Behold, she is within the tent .”
About this coordinate
Genesis 18:9:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Genesis 18:9, so the Hebrew word בָאֹֽהֶל׃ (baohel) 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.18.9.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.18.9.W8.S1) and character.