בִּימֵ֣י

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 בִּימֵ֣י

   bi-ME

   in the days of
2. phraseyour reading level🔊 בִּימֵ֣י קְצִיר־חִטִּ֗ים

   bi-ME ke-TSIR-khi-TIM

   in the days of harvest of wheat
3. clause🔊 וַיְהִ֨י מִיָּמִ֜ים בִּימֵ֣י קְצִיר־חִטִּ֗ים וַיִּפְקֹ֨ד שִׁמְשׁ֤וֹן אֶת־אִשְׁתּוֹ֙ בִּגְדִ֣י עִזִּ֔ים וַיֹּ֕אמֶר אָבֹ֥אָה אֶל־אִשְׁתִּ֖י הֶחָ֑דְרָה

   va-ye-HI mi-ya-MIM bi-ME ke-TSIR-khi-TIM va-yif-KOD shim-SHON et-ish-TO big-DI i-ZIM va-yo-MER a-VO-A el-ish-TI he-KHAD-re-HA

   and it happened after days in the days of harvest of wheat and visited Samson {direct object} his wife with a young goat of goats and he said let me go in to my wife into the inner room
4. sentence🔊 וַיְהִ֨י מִיָּמִ֜ים בִּימֵ֣י קְצִיר־חִטִּ֗ים וַיִּפְקֹ֨ד שִׁמְשׁ֤וֹן אֶת־אִשְׁתּוֹ֙ בִּגְדִ֣י עִזִּ֔ים וַיֹּ֕אמֶר אָבֹ֥אָה אֶל־אִשְׁתִּ֖י הֶחָ֑דְרָה וְלֹֽא־נְתָנ֥וֹ אָבִ֖יהָ לָבֽוֹא׃

   va-ye-HI mi-ya-MIM bi-ME ke-TSIR-khi-TIM va-yif-KOD shim-SHON et-ish-TO big-DI i-ZIM va-yo-MER a-VO-A el-ish-TI he-KHAD-re-HA ve-LO-na-ta-NO a-vi-HA la-VO

   and it happened after days in the days of harvest of wheat and visited Samson {direct object} his wife with a young goat of goats and he said let me go in to my wife into the inner room but he did not allow him her father to go in

Exegesis

The temporal frame combines miyyāyim {מִיָּמִ֜ים | miyyāyim} ‘after some days’ with bimei ketzir-chitim {בִּימֵי קְצִיר־חִטִּים | bimê qeṣîr-ḥiṭṭîm} ‘in the days of the wheat harvest,’ situating action in the agrarian cycle.