Numbers 13:23:6Num.13.23.W6TAB
זְמוֹרָה֙
zemora
“a branch”
- Transliteration
- ze-mo-RA
- Extended
- zeh-moh-RAA
- IPA
- /zmɔˈraː/
Meaning by language
- English
- a branch
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Zayin | z as in zero | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
ze-mo-RA
- phraseyour reading level
va-yikh-RE-tu mi-SHAM ze-mo-RA
- clause
va-ya-VO-u ad-NA-khal esh-KOL va-yikh-RE-tu mi-SHAM ze-mo-RA ve-esh-KOL a-na-VIM e-KHAD va-yi-sa-U-hu ba-MOT bish-NA-yim
- sentence
va-ya-VO-u ad-NA-khal esh-KOL va-yikh-RE-tu mi-SHAM ze-mo-RA ve-esh-KOL a-na-VIM e-KHAD va-yi-sa-U-hu ba-MOT bish-NA-yim u-min-ha-ri-mo-NIM u-min-ha-te-e-NIM
Exegesis
The verb clause vayyikretu misham {וַיִּכְרְתּוּ מִשָּׁם | wayyikkəretū miššām} ‘and they cut off from there’ introduces the direct objects the branch and cluster: zemorah ve-eshkol anavim echad {זְמוֹרָה וְאֶשְׁכֹּל עֲנָבִים אֶחָד | zemōrāh wə’ĕškōl ʿănāḇîm ’eḥād}, illustrating the scouts’ harvest of a single grape cluster.
In context — Numbers 13:23
And they came to the Valley of Eshkol, and from there they cut down a branch and a single cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two ; they also took some pomegranates and some figs.
About this coordinate
Numbers 13:23:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Numbers 13:23, so the Hebrew word זְמוֹרָה֙ (zemora) 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.13.23.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.13.23.W6.S1) and character.