Joshua 19:30:4Josh.19.30.W4TAB
עָרִ֛ים
arim
“cities”
- Transliteration
- a-RIM
- Extended
- aa-REEM
- IPA
- /ʕaˈriːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- cities
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Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
a-RIM
- clause
a-RIM es-RIM u-shta-YIM ve-khats-re-HEN
- sentence
ve-u-MAH va-a-FEK u-re-KHOV a-RIM es-RIM u-shta-YIM ve-khats-re-HEN
Exegesis
Next, the noun arim {עָרִ֛ים | ʿā-rîm} ‘towns’ in the feminine plural absolute is immediately quantified by the compound numeral esrim ushtayim {עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וּשְׁתַּ֖יִם | ʿĕ-śerîm ū-šĕ-tay-yīm} ‘twenty-two’, a coordinated cardinal expression.
Root and etymology
“city”
In context — Joshua 19:30
Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob—twenty-two cities and their villages.
About this coordinate
Joshua 19:30:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Joshua 19:30, so the Hebrew word עָרִ֛ים (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.19.30.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.19.30.W4.S1) and character.