Numbers 14:29:8Num.14.29.W8TAB
עֶשְׂרִ֥ים
esrim
“twenty”
- Transliteration
- es-RIM
- Extended
- es-REEM
- IPA
- /ʔɛsˈrim/
Meaning by language
- English
- twenty
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
es-RIM
- phraseyour reading level
es-RIM sha-NA
- 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 age restriction is expressed by miben esrim shanah vamaalah {מִבֶּן עֶשְׂרִים שָׁנָה וָמָעְלָה | mi-bén ʿe-sᵊ-rîm šā-nāh vā-ma‘-lā} ‘from twenty years and upward,’ reflecting Mosaic census criteria.
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 14:29:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Numbers 14:29, so the Hebrew word עֶשְׂרִ֥ים (esrim) 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.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.14.29.W8.S1) and character.