Genesis 26:1:3Gen.26.1.W3TAB
בָּאָ֔רֶץ
baarets
“in the land”
- Transliteration
- ba-A-rets
- Extended
- bah-AA-rets
- IPA
- /baː.ˈʔaː.rɛts/
Meaning by language
- English
- in the land
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tsade Sofit | final form of Tsade — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
ba-A-rets
- clause
va-ye-HI ra-AV ba-A-rets mil-le-VAD ha-ra-AV ha-ri-SHON a-SHER ha-YA bi-MEI av-ra-HAM
- sentence
va-ye-HI ra-AV ba-A-rets mil-le-VAD ha-ra-AV ha-ri-SHON a-SHER ha-YA bi-MEI av-ra-HAM va-YE-lekh yits-KHAK el-a-vi-ME-lekh ME-lekh-pe-lish-TIM ge-ra-RA
Exegesis
The noun raav {רָעָב | rā-ʿāḇ} ‘famine’ is immediately followed by the locative baarets {בָּאָרֶץ | bā-ʾā-reṣ} ‘in the land’, establishing the setting.
Root and etymology
Rootaleph–resh–tsade
“land, ground, earth”
In context — Genesis 26:1
Now a famine came upon the land besides the earlier famine that had occurred in Abraham , and Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.
About this coordinate
Genesis 26:1:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Genesis 26:1, so the Hebrew word בָּאָ֔רֶץ (baarets) 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.26.1.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.26.1.W3.S1) and character.