Numbers 13:29:12Num.13.29.W12TAB
עַל־הַיָּ֔ם
alhayam
“by the sea”
- Transliteration
- al-ha-YAM
- Extended
- ahl-hah-YAAM
- IPA
- /ʕal.hajˈjaːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- by the sea
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Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
al-ha-YAM
- phraseyour reading level
yo-SHEV al-ha-YAM
- clause
ve-ha-KHI-ti ve-ha-ye-vu-SI ve-ha-e-mo-RI yo-SHEV ba-HAR ve-ha-ke-na-a-NI yo-SHEV al-ha-YAM ve-AL YAD ha-yar-DEN
- sentence
a-ma-LEK yo-SHEV be-E-retz ha-NE-gev ve-ha-KHI-ti ve-ha-ye-vu-SI ve-ha-e-mo-RI yo-SHEV ba-HAR ve-ha-ke-na-a-NI yo-SHEV al-ha-YAM ve-AL YAD ha-yar-DEN
Exegesis
The final clause specifies the Canaanite’s domain through two parallel prepositional phrases—al-ha-yam {עַל־הַיָּם | ʿal-ha-yām} ‘by the sea’ and ve-ʿal yad ha-yarden {וְעַל יַד הַיַּרְדֵּן | wə-ʿal yāḏ ha-ya-rāḏēn} ‘and beside the Jordan’—emphasizing dual geographic boundaries. This repetition and parallelism foreground the link between each ethnonym and its landscape.
Root and etymology
y-myod-mem
“sea, large body of water”
In context — Numbers 13:29
Amalek dwells in the land of the Negev ; and the Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanite dwells by the sea and beside the Jordan .
About this coordinate
Numbers 13:29:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Numbers 13:29, so the Hebrew word עַל־הַיָּ֔ם (alhayam) 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.13.29.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.13.29.W12.S1) and character.