Joshua 15:41:5Josh.15.41.W5TAB

עָרִ֥ים

arim

cities

Transliteration
a-RIM
Extended
ah-REEM
IPA
/ʕaˈriːm/

Meaning by language

English
cities

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Result
עָ + רִ֥ים
a + rim
arim

Alphabet Analysis

Ayindeep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal
Qametslong 'ah'
Reshr guttural, like the French r
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Yody as in yes; marks long ī
Mem Sofitfinal form of Mem — at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    a-RIM

  2. phraseyour reading level

    a-RIM shesh-ES-re

  3. clause

    a-RIM shesh-ES-re ve-hats-re-HEN

  4. sentence

    u-ge-DE-rot BEIT-da-GON ve-na-a-MA u-ma-ke-DA a-RIM shesh-ES-re ve-hats-re-HEN

Exegesis

After the name series, the construction arim shesh-esre {עָרִ֥ים שֵׁשׁ־עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה | ʿārîm šēš-ʿeśrēh} ‘cities, sixteen’ functions as a summarizing count for the listed sites, with the numeral following the noun in a compact register typical of administrative enumeration.

Root and etymology

consonantsAyin–Yod–Resh

city, inhabited place

In contextJoshua 15:41

And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah: sixteen cities with their villages .

About this coordinate

Joshua 15:41:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Joshua 15:41, so the Hebrew word עָרִ֥ים (arim) 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.15.41.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.15.41.W5.S1) and character.