Numbers 14:33:4Num.14.33.W4TAB
בַּמִּדְבָּר֙
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
yih-YU ro-IM ba-mid-BAR
- clause
u-ve-NEI-khem yih-YU ro-IM ba-mid-BAR ar-ba-IM sha-NA ve-na-SE-u et-ze-nu-TEI-khem
- sentence
u-ve-NEI-khem yih-YU ro-IM ba-mid-BAR ar-ba-IM sha-NA ve-na-SE-u et-ze-nu-TEI-khem ad-TOM pig-rei-KHEM ba-mid-BAR
Exegesis
The locative prepositional phrase ba-midbar {בַּמִּדְבָּר | ba·mid·bār} ‘in the wilderness’ establishes the setting, and the cardinal expression arba-im shanah {אַרְבָּעִים שָׁנָה | ’ar·bā;’im šānāh} ‘forty years’ marks duration.
The final temporal clause ad-tom pigreichem ba-midbar {עַד־תֹּם פִּגְרֵיכֶם בַּמִּדְבָּר | ’ad tōm pix·rêḵem ba·mid·bār} ‘until the end of your corpses in the wilderness’ uses ad plus a noun phrase to delimit the span of judgment. The repetition of ba-midbar frames the narrative, underscoring the wilderness as the locus of Israel’s testing and mortality.
Root and etymology
d-b-r
“wilderness, uninhabited land”
In context — Numbers 14:33
And your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will bear the burden of your unfaithfulness until your corpses are finished in the wilderness.
About this coordinate
Numbers 14:33:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Numbers 14:33, so the Hebrew word בַּמִּדְבָּר֙ (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.14.33.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.14.33.W4.S1) and character.