Judges 20:42:10Judg.20.42.W10TAB
מֵהֶ֣עָרִ֔ים
meherim
“from the cities”
- Transliteration
- me-he-rim
- Extended
- mee-heh-REEM
- IPA
- /meːhɛʕaːˈriːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- from the cities
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-rim
- clause
va-a-SHER me-he-rim mash-khi-TIM o-TO be-to-KHO
- sentence
va-yif-NU lif-NEI ISH yis-ra-EL el-DE-rekh ha-mid-BAR ve-ha-mil-kha-MA hid-bi-ka-TE-hu va-a-SHER me-he-rim mash-khi-TIM o-TO be-to-KHO
In context — Judges 20:42
And they turned before the men of Israel toward the road to the wilderness, and the battle overtook them, and those who came from the cities were destroying them in their midst.
About this coordinate
Judges 20:42:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of Judges 20:42, so the Hebrew word מֵהֶ֣עָרִ֔ים (meherim) 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.20.42.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.20.42.W10.S1) and character.