Numbers 13:18:9Num.13.18.W9TAB

הֲרָפֶ֔ה

harafeh

“or weak”

Transliteration: ha-ra-FEH
Extended: hah-rah-FEH
IPA: /hăraˈfɛ/

Meaning by language

English: or weak

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result

הֲ + רָ + פֶ֔ה

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ha + ra + feh

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harafeh

Alphabet Analysis

	He	h as in house; silent at word end
	Hateph Patach	reduced 'ah'
	Resh	r guttural, like the French r
	Qamets	long 'ah'
	Pe	p with dagesh; f without
	Seghol	short 'eh' as in met
	He	h as in house; silent at word end

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Word in context

word
ha-ra-FEH
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 13:18:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Numbers 13:18, so the Hebrew word הֲרָפֶ֔ה (harafeh) 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.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.13.18.W9.S1) and character.

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