Numbers 14:29:1Num.14.29.W1TAB
בַּמִּדְבָּ֣ר
bamidbar
“in the wilderness”
- Transliteration
- ba-mid-BAR
- Extended
- bah-mid-BAAR
- IPA
- /bamidˈbaːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- in the wilderness
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ba-mid-BAR
- phraseyour reading level
ba-mid-BAR ha-ZEH
- clause
ba-mid-BAR ha-ZEH yip-LU fig-rei-KHEM ve-KHOL-pe-ku-DEI-khem le-KHOL-mis-par-KHEM mi-BEN es-RIM sha-NA va-MA-la
- sentence
ba-mid-BAR ha-ZEH yip-LU fig-rei-KHEM ve-KHOL-pe-ku-DEI-khem le-KHOL-mis-par-KHEM mi-BEN es-RIM sha-NA va-MA-la a-SHER ha-li-no-TEM a-LAI
Exegesis
The verse opens with the locative phrase bamidbar {בַּמִּדְבָּ֣ר | ba-mid-bār} ‘in the wilderness’ qualified by the demonstrative hazzeh {הַ֠זֶּה | ha-zzeh} ‘this,’ setting the scene.
Root and etymology
ד־ב־ר
“wilderness”
In context — Numbers 14:29
In this wilderness your corpses will fall—every one of your counted ones, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me .
About this coordinate
Numbers 14:29:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Numbers 14:29, so the Hebrew word בַּמִּדְבָּ֣ר (bamidbar) 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.14.29.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.14.29.W1.S1) and character.