Numbers 14:12:8Num.14.12.W8TAB

מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃

mimenu

than him

Transliteration
mi-me-NU
Extended
mih-meh-NOO
IPA
/mimˈmenuː/

Meaning by language

English
than him

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Result
מִ + מֶּֽ + נּוּ׃
mi + me + nu
mimenu

Alphabet Analysis

Memm as in mother
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Memm as in mother
Segholshort 'eh' as in met
Nunn as in new
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū

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Word in context

  1. word

    mi-me-NU

  2. clause

    ve-e-e-SEH ot-KHA le-GOI-ga-DOL ve-a-TSUM mi-me-NU

  3. sentence

    a-ke-NU va-DE-ver ve-o-ri-SHE-nu ve-e-e-SEH ot-KHA le-GOI-ga-DOL ve-a-TSUM mi-me-NU

Exegesis

Finally, mimmēnû {מִמֶּֽנּוּ | mim-me-nû} ‘than them’ marks a comparative contrast emphasizing the promised nation’s superiority. The sequential causative structure heightens the shift from judgment to promise.

In contextNumbers 14:12

I will strike them down with a plague and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they.

About this coordinate

Numbers 14:12:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Numbers 14:12, so the Hebrew word מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃ (mimenu) 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.14.12.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.14.12.W8.S1) and character.