Judges 19:1:12Judg.19.1.W12TAB
הַר־אֶפְרַ֔יִם
harefrayim
“of the hill country of Ephraim”
- Transliteration
- har-e-fra-YIM
- Extended
- hahr-eh-frah-YEEM
- IPA
- /har.ʔɛf.rɑˈjim/
Meaning by language
- English
- of the hill country of Ephraim
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
har-e-fra-YIM
- phraseyour reading level
be-yar-ke-TE har-e-fra-YIM
- clause
va-ye-HI ISH le-VI GAR be-yar-ke-TE har-e-fra-YIM va-yik-KAKH-lo i-SHA pi-LE-gesh mi-BET LE-khem ye-hu-DA
- sentence
va-ye-HI ba-ya-MIM ha-HEM u-ME-lekh EN be-yis-ra-EL va-ye-HI ISH le-VI GAR be-yar-ke-TE har-e-fra-YIM va-yik-KAKH-lo i-SHA pi-LE-gesh mi-BET LE-khem ye-hu-DA
Exegesis
The construct phrase beyarketei har-ephrayim {בְּיַרְכְּתֵי הַר־אֶפְרַיִם | bə-yar-kə-ṯê hăr ʾep·ray·yîm} ‘in the outskirts of the hill country of Ephraim’ underlines geographic marginality.
In context — Judges 19:1
And it happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that a Levite sojourning in the outskirts of the hill country of Ephraim took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem of Judah .
About this coordinate
Judges 19:1:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Judges 19:1, so the Hebrew word הַר־אֶפְרַ֔יִם (harefrayim) 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.19.1.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.19.1.W12.S1) and character.