Genesis 26:1:4Gen.26.1.W4TAB
מִלְּבַד֙
millevad
“besides”
- Transliteration
- mil-le-VAD
- Extended
- mil-leh-VAHD
- IPA
- /mil.lə.ˈvaːd/
Meaning by language
- English
- besides
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Dalet | d as in door |
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Word in context
- word
mil-le-VAD
- 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
Milvad {מִלְּבַד | mil-lə-ḇaḏ} functions as an exceptive preposition, marking contrast with haraav harishon {הָרָעָב הָרִאשׁוֹן | hā-rā-ʿāḇ hā-rî-šôn} ‘the first famine’, and the relative clause introduced by asher {אֲשֶׁר | ʾă-šer} ‘which’ with the verb hayah {הָיָה | hā-yāh} ‘was’ plus the temporal phrase bimei Avraham {בִּימֵי אַבְרָהָם | bî-mê ʾaḇ-rā-hām} ‘in the days of Abraham’, locating that earlier crisis within the patriarch’s life.
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 26:1:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Genesis 26:1, so the Hebrew word מִלְּבַד֙ (millevad) 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.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Gen.26.1.W4.S1) and character.