Joshua 13:27:3Josh.13.27.W3TAB

וּבֵ֨ית נִמְרָ֜ה

uveit nimra

and Beth Nimrah

Transliteration
u-VEIT nim-RA
Extended
oo-VEET neem-RAH
IPA
/uːveːt nimˈraː/

Meaning by language

English
and Beth Nimrah

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Tavt as in top
Nunn as in new
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Memm as in mother
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Reshr guttural, like the French r
Qametslong 'ah'
Heh as in house; silent at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    u-VEIT nim-RA

  2. phraseyour reading level

    BEIT ha-RAM u-VEIT nim-RA

  3. clause

    u-va-E-mek BEIT ha-RAM u-VEIT nim-RA ve-su-KOT ve-tsa-FON YE-ter mam-le-KHUT si-KHON ME-lekh khesh-BON ha-yar-DEN u-ge-VUL

  4. sentence

    u-va-E-mek BEIT ha-RAM u-VEIT nim-RA ve-su-KOT ve-tsa-FON YE-ter mam-le-KHUT si-KHON ME-lekh khesh-BON ha-yar-DEN u-ge-VUL ad-kse yam-ki-NE-ret E-ver ha-yar-DEN miz-RA-kha

Exegesis

It continues with a series of place names—beit haram {בֵּ֣ית הָרָם֩ | bêṯ hā-rām}, uveit nimrah {וּבֵ֨ית נִמְרָ֜ה | ū-bêṯ nim-rāh}, vesukkot {וְסֻכּ֣וֹת | wə-suk-kōṯ}, vetsaphon {וְצָפ֗וֹן | wə-ṣā-phon}—coordinated by vav-conjunctions in an asyndetic list typical of Hebrew boundary descriptions.

Root and etymology

consonantsbet–yod–tav

house

In contextJoshua 13:27

And in the valley were Beit-Haram, Beit-Nimrah, Sukkoth, and Zaphon, the remainder of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon; and the Jordan with its border up to the edge of the Sea of Kinneret eastward .

About this coordinate

Joshua 13:27:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Joshua 13:27, so the Hebrew word וּבֵ֨ית נִמְרָ֜ה (uveit nimra) 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 Josh.13.27.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.13.27.W3.S1) and character.