Numbers 14:29:9Num.14.29.W9TAB

שָׁנָ֖ה

shana

“years”

Transliteration: sha-NA
Extended: shah-NAA
IPA: /ʃaˈnaː/

Meaning by language

English: years

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Result

שָׁ + נָ֖ה

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sha + na

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shana

Alphabet Analysis

	Shin	shin with right dot; sin with left dot
	Qamets	long 'ah'
	Nun	n as in new
	Qamets	long 'ah'
	He	h as in house; silent at word end

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Word in context

word
sha-NA
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 14:29:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Numbers 14:29, so the Hebrew word שָׁנָ֖ה (shana) 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.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.14.29.W9.S1) and character.

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