Numbers 13:27:9Num.13.27.W9TAB
חָלָ֥ב
khalav
“milk”
- Transliteration
- kha-LAV
- Extended
- khah-LAHV
- IPA
- /ħaˈlav/
Meaning by language
- English
- milk
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh |
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The word
Word in context
- word
kha-LAV
- phraseyour reading level
za-VAT kha-LAV ud-VASH
- clause
ve-GAM za-VAT kha-LAV ud-VASH HI ve-ZE-PIR-yah
- 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 coordinating conjunction vegam {וְגַם | wə-gam} ‘and also’ introduces the participial clause zavat chalav udevash {זָבַת חָלָב וּדְבַשׁ | zā-vat ḥā-lā-v u-ḏə-vaš} ‘flowing with milk and honey’, where the feminine participle zavat conveys ongoing abundance.
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 13:27:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Numbers 13:27, so the Hebrew word חָלָ֥ב (khalav) 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.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.13.27.W9.S1) and character.