Judges 19:1:3Judg.19.1.W3TAB
הָהֵ֔ם
hahem
“those”
- Transliteration
- ha-HEM
- Extended
- haa-HEEM
- IPA
- /haːˈheːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- those
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
ha-HEM
- phraseyour reading level
ba-ya-MIM ha-HEM
- clause
va-ye-HI ba-ya-MIM ha-HEM u-ME-lekh EN be-yis-ra-EL
- 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 temporal phrase bayyamim hahem {בַּיָּמִים הָהֵם | ba·yā·mîm hā-hêm} ‘in those days’ situates the episode in an undefined period.
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 19:1:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Judges 19:1, so the Hebrew word הָהֵ֔ם (hahem) 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.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.19.1.W3.S1) and character.