Judges 17:8:3Judg.17.8.W3TAB
מֵהָעִ֗יר
mehair
“from the city”
- Transliteration
- me-ha-IR
- Extended
- mee-hah-EER
- IPA
- /meː.haːˈʕiːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- from the city
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
me-ha-IR
- clause
va-ye-LEKH ha-i-SH me-ha-IR mi-BET LE-khem ye-hu-DA la-GUR ba-a-SHER yim-TSA
- sentence
va-ye-LEKH ha-i-SH me-ha-IR mi-BET LE-khem ye-hu-DA la-GUR ba-a-SHER yim-TSA va-ya-VO har-e-fra-YIM ad-BET mi-KHA la-a-SOT dar-KO
Exegesis
The prepositional phrase meha’ir mibeit-lechem yehudah {מֵהָעִ֗יר מִבֵּ֥ית לֶ֙חֶם֙ יְהוּדָ֔ה | mēhā’îr mibbēt-leḥem yĕhūdāh} ‘from the city of Bethlehem in Judah’ locates origin.
In context — Judges 17:8
And the man went from the city of Bethlehem in Judah to sojourn wherever he might find, and as he went on his way he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah.
About this coordinate
Judges 17:8:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Judges 17:8, so the Hebrew word מֵהָעִ֗יר (mehair) 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 Judg.17.8.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.17.8.W3.S1) and character.