Numbers 14:31:4Num.14.31.W4TAB
לָבַ֣ז
lavaz
“would become a prey”
- Transliteration
- la-VAZ
- Extended
- laa-VAHZ
- IPA
- /laˈvaz/
Meaning by language
- English
- would become a prey
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Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Zayin | z as in zero |
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Word in context
- word
la-VAZ
- phraseyour reading level
la-VAZ yih-YEH
- clause
ve-tap-KHEM a-SHER a-mar-TEM la-VAZ yih-YEH
- sentence
ve-tap-KHEM a-SHER a-mar-TEM la-VAZ yih-YEH ve-hei-VEI-ti o-TAM ve-yad-U et-ha-A-retz a-SHER me-as-TEM BAH
Exegesis
The relative clause introduced by asher {אֲשֶׁ֥ר | ʾa-šer} ‘whom’ embeds the community’s own utterance (amartem {אֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם | ʾa-mar-tem} ‘you said’ + lavaz {לָבַ֣ז | lā-vaz} ‘as prey’), setting up the anticipated fate articulated by yihyeh {יִהְיֶ֑ה | yi-ḥyēh} ‘would be’.
Root and etymology
RootBet-Zayin-Zayin
“to plunder”
In context — Numbers 14:31
But your little ones , whom you said would be prey, I will bring them in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
About this coordinate
Numbers 14:31:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Numbers 14:31, so the Hebrew word לָבַ֣ז (lavaz) 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.14.31.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.14.31.W4.S1) and character.