Judges 20:48:8Judg.20.48.W8TAB
מֵעִ֤יר
meir
“from a city”
- Transliteration
- me-IR
- Extended
- mee-EER
- IPA
- /meːˈʕiːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- from a city
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
me-IR
- phraseyour reading level
me-IR me-TIM
- clause
ve-ISH yis-ra-EL sha-VU el-be-NEI vin-ya-MIN va-yak-KUM le-fi-KHE-rev me-IR me-TIM ad-be-he-MA AD kal-ha-nim-TSA
- sentence
ve-ISH yis-ra-EL sha-VU el-be-NEI vin-ya-MIN va-yak-KUM le-fi-KHE-rev me-IR me-TIM ad-be-he-MA AD kal-ha-nim-TSA GAM kal-he-a-RIM ha-nim-tse-OT shil-KHU va-ESH
Exegesis
The paired expressions mēʿîr metîm ʿad bəhēmāh ʿad kol hannimṣāʾ {מֵעִ֤יר מְתִים֙ עַד־בְּהֵמָ֔ה עַד־כָּל־הַנִּמְצָ֑א | mēʿîr metîm ʿad bəhēmāh ʿad kol hannimṣāʾ} ‘from city—men up to livestock, until all that was found’ uses ʿad {עַד | ʿad} for cumulative scope.
Root and etymology
ע־י־ר
“city”
In context — Judges 20:48
And the men of Israel returned against the sons of Benjamin and struck them with the sword —men and livestock of each city; then they burned every city they found.
About this coordinate
Judges 20:48:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Judges 20:48, so the Hebrew word מֵעִ֤יר (meir) 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.20.48.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.20.48.W8.S1) and character.