Numbers 13:27:3Num.13.27.W3TAB
בָּ֕אנוּ
banu
“We came”
- Transliteration
- BA-nu
- Extended
- BAA-noo
- IPA
- /ˈbaːnuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- We came
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
BA-nu
- clause
va-ye-sap-ru-LO va-yo-MRU BA-nu el-ha-A-retz a-SHER she-lakh-TA-nu
- sentence
va-ye-sap-ru-LO va-yo-MRU BA-nu el-ha-A-retz a-SHER she-lakh-TA-nu ve-GAM za-VAT kha-LAV ud-VASH HI ve-ZE-PIR-yah
Exegesis
The perfect banu {בָּאנּוּ | bā-ʾan-nū} ‘we came’ marks a completed arrival into the direct object el-haaretz {אֶל־הָאָרֶץ | el-hā-ʾā-reṣ} ‘the land’, which is defined by the restrictive relative clause asher shlach-tanu {אֲשֶׁר שְׁלַחְתָּנוּ | ʾă-šer šə-la-ḥtā-nū} ‘which you sent us’.
In context — Numbers 13:27
And they recounted to him and said, “We have come to the land you sent us to, and it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit .”
About this coordinate
Numbers 13:27:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Numbers 13:27, so the Hebrew word בָּ֕אנוּ (banu) 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.13.27.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.13.27.W3.S1) and character.