Numbers 13:18:10Num.13.18.W10TAB
הַמְעַ֥ט
hamat
“whether few”
- Transliteration
- ham-AT
- Extended
- hahm-AT
- IPA
- /hamˈʕat/
Meaning by language
- English
- whether few
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Tet | t — emphatic |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ham-AT
- phraseyour reading level
ham-AT HU
- clause
ve-et-ha-AM ha-yo-SHEV a-le-HA he-kha-ZAK HU ha-ra-FEH ham-AT HU im-RAV
- sentence
u-re-i-TEM et-ha-A-retz ma-HU ve-et-ha-AM ha-yo-SHEV a-le-HA he-kha-ZAK HU ha-ra-FEH ham-AT HU im-RAV
Exegesis
The distribution of qualities employs parallelism through adjectival pairs joined by the interrogative im {אִם־ | ʾim}: hechazaq {הֶחָזָ֥ק | hē-ḥā-zāq} ‘strong’ or harafeh {הֲרָפֶ֔ה | ḥă-rā-p̄eh} ‘weak,’ and hame’at {הַמְעַ֥ט | ham-‘ǎṭ} ‘few’ or rav {רָֽב | rāḇ} ‘many.’
In context — Numbers 13:18
And you shall see the land —what it is—and the people who dwell on it, whether they are strong or weak , few or many.
About this coordinate
Numbers 13:18:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of Numbers 13:18, so the Hebrew word הַמְעַ֥ט (hamat) 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.13.18.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.13.18.W10.S1) and character.