Judges 19:26:4Judg.19.26.W4TAB
הַבֹּ֑קֶר
haboker
“the morning”
- Transliteration
- ha-BO-ker
- Extended
- hah-BOH-kehr
- IPA
- /habˈboːqɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- the morning
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ha-BO-ker
- phraseyour reading level
lif-not ha-BO-ker
- clause
va-ta-VO ha-ish-SHA lif-not ha-BO-ker
- sentence
va-ta-VO ha-ish-SHA lif-not ha-BO-ker va-ti-POL PE-takh bet-ha-ISH a-sher-a-do-NE-ha SHAM ad-ha-OR
Exegesis
The verse opens with the vav-consecutive verb vatavo {וַתָּבֹא | vat-tā-ḇōʾ} ‘and she came’, establishing narrative sequence before the temporal infinitive lifnot {לִפְנוֹת | li-pə-nôṯ} ‘to turn’ coupled with haboqer {הַבֹּקֶר | ha-bō-qer} ‘the morning’ to indicate daybreak.
Root and etymology
Rootbet–qof–resh
“morning, break of day”
In context — Judges 19:26
And the woman came at the turning of the morning, and she fell at the doorway of the house of the man who was her master, there until the light.
About this coordinate
Judges 19:26:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Judges 19:26, so the Hebrew word הַבֹּ֑קֶר (haboker) 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.19.26.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.19.26.W4.S1) and character.