Judges 19:1:3Judg.19.1.W3TAB

הָהֵ֔ם

hahem

those

Transliteration
ha-HEM
Extended
haa-HEEM
IPA
/haːˈheːm/

Meaning by language

English
those

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Result
הָ + הֵ֔ם
ha + hem
hahem

Alphabet Analysis

Heh as in house; silent at word end
Qametslong 'ah'
Heh as in house; silent at word end
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Mem Sofitfinal form of Mem — at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    ha-HEM

  2. phraseyour reading level

    ba-ya-MIM ha-HEM

  3. clause

    va-ye-HI ba-ya-MIM ha-HEM u-ME-lekh EN be-yis-ra-EL

  4. 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 contextJudges 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.