Genesis 19:34:2Gen.19.34.W2TAB
מִֽמָּחֳרָ֔ת
mimmakhorat
“the next day”
- Transliteration
- mim-ma-kho-RAT
- Extended
- mihm-mah-khoh-RAAT
- IPA
- /mim.ma.ħɔ̆ˈraːθ/
Meaning by language
- English
- the next day
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Hateph Qamets | reduced 'oh' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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The word
Word in context
- word
mim-ma-kho-RAT
- clause
va-ye-HI mim-ma-kho-RAT va-TO-mer ha-be-khi-RA el-ha-tse-i-RA hen-sha-KHAV-ti E-mesh et-a-VI
- sentence
va-ye-HI mim-ma-kho-RAT va-TO-mer ha-be-khi-RA el-ha-tse-i-RA hen-sha-KHAV-ti E-mesh et-a-VI na-she-KEN-nu YA-yin gam-hal-LAI-la u-vo-I shikh-VI im-MO u-ne-khai-YE me-a-vi-NU ZA-ra
Exegesis
The verse begins with vayehi {וַיְהִי | way-hî}, a wayyiqtol narrative marker introducing a new scene, further specified by mimachorat {מִמָּחֳרָת | mim-mā-ḥo-rāṯ} “on the following day.”
In context — Genesis 19:34
And it happened on the next day that the older said to the younger, “Behold, I lay with my father last night. Let us make him drink wine also tonight, and you go in and lie with him, and we will preserve offspring from our father.”
About this coordinate
Genesis 19:34:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Genesis 19:34, so the Hebrew word מִֽמָּחֳרָ֔ת (mimmakhorat) 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.19.34.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.19.34.W2.S1) and character.