Numbers 16:14:7Num.16.14.W7TAB

וּדְבַשׁ

udevash

and honey

Transliteration
u-de-VASH
Extended
oo-deh-VAHSH
IPA
/uːdəˈvaʃ/

Meaning by language

English
and honey

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Result
וּ + דְ + בַשׁ
u + de + vash
udevash

Alphabet Analysis

Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū
Daletd as in door
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Shinshin with right dot; sin with left dot

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Word in context

  1. word

    u-de-VASH

  2. sentence

    AF LO ha-ve-TA-nu el-E-RETS za-VAT kha-LAV u-de-VASH va-ti-TEN-LA-nu na-kha-LAT sa-DE va-KE-rem ha-ei-NEI ha-a-na-SHIM ha-HEM te-na-KER LO na-a-LE

Exegesis

The prepositional phrase ʾel-ʾereṣ zāḇeṯ ḥālāḇ û-ḏǝ-ḇāš {אֶל־אֶרֶץ זָבַת חָלָב וּדְבַשׁ | ʾel-ʾereṣ zāḇeṯ ḥālāḇ û-ḏǝ-ḇāš} specifies the desired destination, with the participle zāḇeṯ ‘flowing’ conveying ongoing abundance.

In contextNumbers 16:14

Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? We will not go up.

About this coordinate

Numbers 16:14:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Numbers 16:14, so the Hebrew word וּדְבַשׁ (udevash) 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.16.14.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.16.14.W7.S1) and character.