Numbers 15:32:3Num.15.32.W3TAB

בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר

bamidbar

in the wilderness

Transliteration
ba-mid-BAR
Extended
bah-mid-BAAR
IPA
/bam.midˈbaːr/

Meaning by language

English
in the wilderness

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
בַּ + מִּדְ + בָּ֑ר
ba + mid + bar
bamidbar

Alphabet Analysis

Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Memm as in mother
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Daletd as in door
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Qametslong 'ah'
Reshr guttural, like the French r

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Word in context

  1. word

    ba-mid-BAR

  2. clause

    va-yi-HYU be-NEI-yis-ra-EL ba-mid-BAR

  3. sentence

    va-yi-HYU be-NEI-yis-ra-EL ba-mid-BAR va-yim-tse-U ISH me-ko-SHESH e-TSIM be-YOM ha-sha-BAT

Exegesis

The construct chain bənê-yiśrāʾēl {בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל | bənê-yiśrāʾēl} ‘sons of Israel’ serves as subject, followed by the prepositional phrase bammidbār {בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר | bammidbār} ‘in the wilderness’.

Root and etymology

d-b-rd-b-r

wilderness

In contextNumbers 15:32

And the sons of Israel were in the wilderness , and they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath .

About this coordinate

Numbers 15:32:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Numbers 15:32, so the Hebrew word בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר (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.15.32.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.15.32.W3.S1) and character.