Judges 20:15:6Judg.20.15.W6TAB
מֵהֶ֣עָרִ֔ים
mehearim
“from the cities”
- Transliteration
- me-he-a-RIM
- Extended
- mee-heh-ah-REEM
- IPA
- /meː.hɛ.ʕaˈriːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- from the cities
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 | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
me-he-a-RIM
- clause
va-yit-pa-ke-DU be-NEI bin-ya-MIN ba-YOM ha-HU me-he-a-RIM e-se-RIM ve-shi-SHA E-lef ISH sho-LEF KHA-rev
- sentence
va-yit-pa-ke-DU be-NEI bin-ya-MIN ba-YOM ha-HU me-he-a-RIM e-se-RIM ve-shi-SHA E-lef ISH sho-LEF KHA-rev le-VAD mi-yo-she-VEI ha-giv-A hit-pa-ke-DU she-VA me-OT ISH ba-KHUR
Exegesis
The temporal phrase bayom hahu {בַּיּ֤וֹם הַהוּא | bayyôm hâhûʾ} sets the time, and the genitive prepositional meha'arim {מֵהֶ֣עָרִ֔ים | mêhēʿārîm} ‘from the cities’ specifies origin.
In context — Judges 20:15
And the sons of Benjamin were mustered on that day from the cities—twenty-six thousand men drawing the sword—apart from the inhabitants of Gibeah; there were mustered seven hundred chosen .
About this coordinate
Judges 20:15:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Judges 20:15, so the Hebrew word מֵהֶ֣עָרִ֔ים (mehearim) 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.20.15.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.20.15.W6.S1) and character.