Isaiah 15:2:8Isa.15.2.W8TAB

מֵֽידְבָא֙

meidva

Medeba

Transliteration
meid-VA
Extended
meed-VAH
IPA
/meːḏˈvaː/

Meaning by language

English
Medeba

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Result
מֵֽידְ + בָא֙
meid + va
meidva

Alphabet Analysis

Memm as in mother
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Daletd as in door
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Qametslong 'ah'
Alephsilent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points

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Word in context

  1. word

    meid-VA

  2. phraseyour reading level

    ve-AL meid-VA

  3. clause

    al-ne-VO ve-AL meid-VA mo-AV ye-ye-LIL be-khol-ro-shav kar-KHA khol-za-KAN ge-ru-A

  4. sentence

    A-la ha-BA-yit ve-di-VON ha-ba-MOT le-VE-khi al-ne-VO ve-AL meid-VA mo-AV ye-ye-LIL be-khol-ro-shav kar-KHA khol-za-KAN ge-ru-A

Exegesis

The prepositional pairs al-nevo {עַל־נְבוֹ | ʿal-nə-vō} ‘over Nebo’ and ve-al meideba {וְעַל מֵידְבָא | wə-ʿal mē-ḏe-bāʾ} ‘and over Medeba’ localize the lament.

In contextIsaiah 15:2

He goes up to the house , to Dibon, and to the high places for weeping. Over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails ; every head is bald, and every beard is shorn.

About this coordinate

Isaiah 15:2:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Isaiah 15:2, so the Hebrew word מֵֽידְבָא֙ (meidva) 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 Isa.15.2.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Isa.15.2.W8.S1) and character.