Joshua 19:39:6Josh.19.39.W6TAB
הֶעָרִ֖ים
hearim
“the cities”
- Transliteration
- he-a-RIM
- Extended
- heh-ah-REEM
- IPA
- /heʕaˈriːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- the cities
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Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| 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
he-a-RIM
- clause
he-a-RIM ve-khats-re-HEN
- sentence
ZOT na-kha-LAT mat-TEH ve-NEI-naf-ta-LI le-mish-pe-kho-TAM he-a-RIM ve-khats-re-HEN
Exegesis
The coordinated nouns he’arim {הֶעָרִים | hê-ʿā-rîm} ‘the cities’ and ve-chatzreihen {וְחַצְרֵיהֶן | wǝ-ḥaṣ-rê-hen} ‘and their villages’ complete the geographic scope. The English rendering preserves these structural relationships through possessive and prepositional phrases.
Root and etymology
ע־י־ר
“city”
In context — Joshua 19:39
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali according to their clans; the cities and their villages .
About this coordinate
Joshua 19:39:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Joshua 19:39, so the Hebrew word הֶעָרִ֖ים (hearim) 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.19.39.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.19.39.W6.S1) and character.