Joshua 15:9:4Josh.15.9.W4TAB

הָהָ֗ר

hahar

of the mountain

Transliteration
ha-HAR
Extended
haa-HAR
IPA
/haːˈhar/

Meaning by language

English
of the mountain

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
הָ + הָ֗ר
ha + har
hahar

Alphabet Analysis

Heh as in house; silent at word end
Qametslong 'ah'
Heh as in house; silent at word end
Qametslong 'ah'
Reshr guttural, like the French r

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Word in context

  1. word

    ha-HAR

  2. phraseyour reading level

    meh-ROSH ha-HAR

  3. clause

    ve-ta-AR hag-GVUL meh-ROSH ha-HAR el-ma-AI-yan MEI nef-TO-akh ve-ya-TSA el-a-REI har-ef-RON

  4. sentence

    ve-ta-AR hag-GVUL meh-ROSH ha-HAR el-ma-AI-yan MEI nef-TO-akh ve-ya-TSA el-a-REI har-ef-RON ve-ta-AR hag-GVUL ba-a-LAH HI kir-YAT ye-a-RIM

Exegesis

The prepositional phrase mērōʼš hahār {מֵרֹאשׁ הָהָר | mē-rō-’š hā-hār} ‘from the top of the hill’ establishes the starting point, followed by ʾel-maʿayān mēy neftōaḥ {אֶל־מַעְיַן מֵי נֶפְתּוֹחַ | ʾel-ma-ʿa-yān mēy nef-tō-ăḥ} ‘to the spring of the waters of Nephthoah’, a construct chain specifying the water source.

Root and etymology

h-r

mountain, hill

In contextJoshua 15:9

And the boundary turned from the top of the hill to the spring of the waters of Nephthoah, went out to the cities of Mount Ephron, and turned again to Baalah, which is called Kiriath-Jearim .

About this coordinate

Joshua 15:9:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Joshua 15:9, so the Hebrew word הָהָ֗ר (hahar) 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.15.9.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.15.9.W4.S1) and character.