Numbers 14:33:9Num.14.33.W9TAB
עַד־תֹּ֥ם
adtom
“until the end”
- Transliteration
- ad-TOM
- Extended
- ahd-TOHM
- IPA
- /ʕadˈ.tom/
Meaning by language
- English
- until the end
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ad-TOM
- phraseyour reading level
ad-TOM pig-rei-KHEM
- clause
ad-TOM pig-rei-KHEM ba-mid-BAR
- 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 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
ת־ו־ם
“end, completion”
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 14:33:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Numbers 14:33, so the Hebrew word עַד־תֹּ֥ם (adtom) 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.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.14.33.W9.S1) and character.