Judges 19:16:9Judg.19.16.W9TAB
מֵהַ֣ר
mehar
“from the hill country of”
- Transliteration
- me-HAR
- Extended
- meh-HAR
- IPA
- /meːˈhar/
Meaning by language
- English
- from the hill country of
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 | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
me-HAR
- phraseyour reading level
me-HAR e-fra-YIM
- clause
ve-hi-NE ISH za-KEN BA min-ma-a-SE-hu min-ha-sa-DE ba-E-rev ve-ha-ISH me-HAR e-fra-YIM ve-HU-GAR ba-giv-A
- sentence
ve-hi-NE ISH za-KEN BA min-ma-a-SE-hu min-ha-sa-DE ba-E-rev ve-ha-ISH me-HAR e-fra-YIM ve-HU-GAR ba-giv-A ve-an-SHE ha-ma-KOM be-NE ye-mi-NI
Exegesis
The disjunctive clause ve-haish mehar Efrayim {וְהָאִישׁ מֵהַר אֶפְרַיִם | wə-hā-ʾiš mē-har ʾe-pʰra-yīm} gives background on his origin.
In context — Judges 19:16
And behold, an old man came from his work in the field at evening. He was from the hill country of Ephraim and was sojourning in Gibeah, but the men of the place were Benjaminites .
About this coordinate
Judges 19:16:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Judges 19:16, so the Hebrew word מֵהַ֣ר (mehar) 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.19.16.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.19.16.W9.S1) and character.