Numbers 14:25:9Num.14.25.W9TAB

הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר

hamidbar

into the wilderness

Transliteration
ha-mid-BAR
Extended
hah-mid-BAAR
IPA
/hamidˈbaːr/

Meaning by language

English
into the wilderness

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
הַ + מִּדְ + בָּ֖ר
ha + mid + bar
hamidbar

Alphabet Analysis

Heh as in house; silent at word end
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Memm as in mother
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Daletd as in door
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Qametslong 'ah'
Reshr guttural, like the French r

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Word in context

  1. word

    ha-mid-BAR

  2. clause

    ma-KHAR pe-NU u-se-U la-KHEM ha-mid-BAR DE-rekh yam-SUF

  3. sentence

    ve-ha-a-ma-LE-ki ve-ha-ke-na-a-NI yo-SHEV ba-E-mek ma-KHAR pe-NU u-se-U la-KHEM ha-mid-BAR DE-rekh yam-SUF

Exegesis

The goal ha-midbar {הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר | ha-mid-bār} ‘the wilderness’, its route derekh {דֶּ֥רֶךְ | dē-reḵ} ‘way’, and the directional object yam-suf {יַם־סֽוּף | yam-sûf} ‘Sea of Reeds’ complete the spatial instruction.

Root and etymology

d-b-rdalet-bet-resh

wilderness

In contextNumbers 14:25

For the Amalekite and the Canaanite are dwelling in the valley . Tomorrow, turn and set out for yourselves into the wilderness by the way of the Sea of Reeds .

About this coordinate

Numbers 14:25:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Numbers 14:25, so the Hebrew word הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר (hamidbar) 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.14.25.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.14.25.W9.S1) and character.