Numbers 16:17:12Num.16.17.W12TAB
חֲמִשִּׁ֤ים
khamishim
“fifty”
- Transliteration
- kha-mi-SHIM
- Extended
- khah-mee-SHEEM
- IPA
- /max.taˈtoː/
Meaning by language
- English
- fifty
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
kha-mi-SHIM
- phraseyour reading level
kha-mi-SHIM u-ma-ta-YIM
- clause
u-ke-KHU ISH makh-ta-TO u-ne-ta-TEM a-lei-HEM ke-TO-ret ve-hik-rav-TEM lif-NEI Ye-ho-VAH ISH makh-ta-TO kha-mi-SHIM u-ma-ta-YIM makh-TOT ve-a-TA ve-a-ha-RON
- sentence
u-ke-KHU ISH makh-ta-TO u-ne-ta-TEM a-lei-HEM ke-TO-ret ve-hik-rav-TEM lif-NEI Ye-ho-VAH ISH makh-ta-TO kha-mi-SHIM u-ma-ta-YIM makh-TOT ve-a-TA ve-a-ha-RON ISH makh-ta-TO
Exegesis
The numerals hamishim umeʾatayim {חֲמִשִּׁים וּמָאתַיִם} use the Hebrew additive structure (50 + 200) yielding 250 censers.
In context — Numbers 16:17
Each man shall take his censer, and you shall put incense upon them, and you shall bring them before the LORD ; each man his censer—250 censers in all. You and Aaron, each man his censer .
About this coordinate
Numbers 16:17:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Numbers 16:17, so the Hebrew word חֲמִשִּׁ֤ים (khamishim) 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.16.17.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.16.17.W12.S1) and character.