Numbers 14:29:4Num.14.29.W4TAB
פִגְרֵיכֶ֜ם
figreikhem
“your corpses”
- Transliteration
- fig-rei-KHEM
- Extended
- fig-rey-KHEM
- IPA
- /fiɡreˈxem/
Meaning by language
- English
- your corpses
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Gimel | g as in good | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
fig-rei-KHEM
- phraseyour reading level
yip-LU fig-rei-KHEM
- 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 Qal imperfect yiplu {יִפְּל֨וּ | yi-pə-lū} ‘they will fall’ functions as the main predicate with pigreichem {פִגְרֵיכֶ֜ם | pi-grē-khem} ‘your corpses’ as its direct object, conveying the certainty of death.
Root and etymology
פ־ג־ר
“corpse, body”
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 14:29:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Numbers 14:29, so the Hebrew word פִגְרֵיכֶ֜ם (figreikhem) 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.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.14.29.W4.S1) and character.