Numbers 13:29:9Num.13.29.W9TAB
בָּהָ֔ר
bahar
“in the hill country”
- Transliteration
- ba-HAR
- Extended
- bah-HAAR
- IPA
- /baˈhaːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- in the hill country
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ba-HAR
- phraseyour reading level
yo-SHEV ba-HAR
- 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
In the second clause, the repeated conjunction ve groups Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites under a single predicate ba-har {בָּהָר | ba-hā-r} ‘in the mountain’, indicating highland settlement.
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 13:29:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Numbers 13:29, so the Hebrew word בָּהָ֔ר (bahar) 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.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.13.29.W9.S1) and character.