Joshua 21:25:8Josh.21.25.W8TAB
עָרִ֖ים
arim
“cities”
- Transliteration
- a-RIM
- Extended
- ah-REEM
- IPA
- /ʕaˈriːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- cities
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
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 shte-YIM
- sentence
u-mi-ma-kha-TSIT mat-TEH me-na-SHEH et-ta-NAKH ve-ET-mig-ra-SHE-ha ve-ET-GAT-ri-MON ve-ET-mig-ra-SHE-ha a-RIM shte-YIM
Exegesis
The nominal clause arim shtayim {עָרִים שְׁתָּיִם | ʿā-rîm šə-ṭā-yim} ‘cities two’ follows typical Hebrew noun-numeral order. Both reconstructions preserve the distributive syntax and iterative markers to mirror the parceling of each city and its grazing land.
Root and etymology
ע־י־ר‘-y-r
“towns, cities”
In context — Joshua 21:25
And from half the tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and its pastureland and Gath-Rimmon and its pastureland, two cities .
About this coordinate
Joshua 21:25:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Joshua 21:25, so the Hebrew word עָרִ֖ים (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.21.25.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Josh.21.25.W8.S1) and character.