Joshua 15:48:1Josh.15.48.W1TAB
וּבָהָ֑ר
uvahar
“and in the hill country”
- Transliteration
- u-va-HAR
- Extended
- oo-vah-HAAR
- IPA
- /uvɑˈhaːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- and in the hill country
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Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
u-va-HAR
- sentence
u-va-HAR sha-MIR ve-ya-TIR ve-so-KHO
Exegesis
The verse opens with the locative prepositional phrase uva-har {וּבָהָ֑ר | ū-bā-hār} ‘and in the hill country’, establishing the spatial domain.
Root and etymology
h-r-rheh–resh–resh
“mountain”
In context — Joshua 15:48
And in the hill country , Shamir, Jattir, and Sokoh .
About this coordinate
Joshua 15:48:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Joshua 15:48, so the Hebrew word וּבָהָ֑ר (uvahar) 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.15.48.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.15.48.W1.S1) and character.