Hosea 13:5:3Hos.13.5.W3TAB
בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר
bamidbar
“in the wilderness”
- Transliteration
- ba-mID-baR
- Extended
- bah-mihd-BAHR
- IPA
- /bam.midˈbaːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- in the wilderness
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| 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
ba-mID-baR
- clause
a-NI ye-DA-e-ti-KHA ba-mID-baR
- sentence
a-NI ye-DA-e-ti-KHA ba-mID-baR be-E-rets ta-le-U-vot
Exegesis
The parallel prepositional phrases bamidbar {בַּמִּדְבָּר | ba-mid-bār} ‘in the wilderness’ and beerets talavot {בְּאֶרֶץ תַּלְאָבוֹת | bə-ʾe-reṣ tal-ʾā-ḇôṯ} ‘in a land of parched hardships’ intensify the harsh setting. English preserves the sequence of “in…” phrases to mirror the Hebrew stacking and maintain the focus on God’s attentive knowledge amid hardship.
Root and etymology
Rootdalet–bet–resh
“steppe, wilderness”
In context — Hosea 13:5
I knew you in the wilderness, in a land of parched hardship.
About this coordinate
Hosea 13:5:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Hosea 13:5, so the Hebrew word בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר (bamidbar) 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 Hos.13.5.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Hos.13.5.W3.S1) and character.