Numbers 13:4:5Num.13.4.W5TAB
שַׁמּ֖וּעַ
shamua
“Shammua”
- Transliteration
- sha-MU-a
- Extended
- shah-MOO-ah
- IPA
- /ʃamˈu.a/
Meaning by language
- English
- Shammua
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father |
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The word
Word in context
- word
sha-MU-a
- clause
le-ma-TE re-u-VEN sha-MU-a ben-ZA-kur
- sentence
ve-E-le she-mo-TAM le-ma-TE re-u-VEN sha-MU-a ben-ZA-kur
Exegesis
Reuben {רְאוּבֵ֔ן | rə-ʾū-bên} ‘Reuben’ heads a construct chain with Shammua {שַׁמּ֖וּעַ | šam-mū-ʼa} ‘Shammua’, bound by maqqef to the genitive expression ben-zakkur {בֶּן־זַכּֽוּר | ben-za-kkūr} ‘son of Zakkur’. This left-branching nominal construct encodes genealogical descent, and the Hebrew maqqef preserves the unity of the family identifier. The translation employs a colon after “names” to mirror the Hebrew etnachta and maintain the list’s syntactic prominence.
In context — Numbers 13:4
And these are their names: for the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zakkur.
About this coordinate
Numbers 13:4:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Numbers 13:4, so the Hebrew word שַׁמּ֖וּעַ (shamua) 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.13.4.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.13.4.W5.S1) and character.