Numbers 11:13:9Num.11.13.W9TAB
לֵאמֹ֔ר
lemor
“saying”
- Transliteration
- le-MOR
- Extended
- leh-MOHR
- IPA
- /leːˈmoːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- saying
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
le-MOR
- clause
ki-yiv-KU a-LAI le-MOR te-NA-la-NU ba-SAR ve-no-KHE-la
- sentence
mei-A-yin li ba-SAR la-TET le-KHOL-ha-AM ha-ZEH ki-yiv-KU a-LAI le-MOR te-NA-la-NU ba-SAR ve-no-KHE-la
Exegesis
The infinitive leemor {לֵאמֹ֔ר | lê-’ā-môr} ‘saying’ signals direct speech, which then uses the Qal imperative tena {תְּנָה־ | tə-nāh} ‘give’ and the cohortative imperfect venokhela {וְנֹאכֵֽלָה׃ | wə-nō-ḵê-lā} ‘we will eat’, forming a forceful plea. English shifts the Hebrew VSO to SVO for clarity and retains the causal structure and intensity of the appeal.
In context — Numbers 11:13
From where can I get meat to give to all these people? For they are weeping over me, saying, “Give us meat and we will eat.”
About this coordinate
Numbers 11:13:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Numbers 11:13, so the Hebrew word לֵאמֹ֔ר (lemor) 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 Num.11.13.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.11.13.W9.S1) and character.