Numbers 16:2:6Num.16.2.W6TAB
חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים
khamishim
“fifty”
- Transliteration
- kha-mi-SHIM
- Extended
- khah-mee-SHEEM
- IPA
- /χămiˈʃim/
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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Word in context
- word
kha-mi-SHIM
- phraseyour reading level
kha-mi-SHIM u-ma-ta-YIM
- clause
va-ya-KU-mu leef-nei-HEM mo-SHEH va-a-na-SHIM mib-NEI yis-ra-EL kha-mi-SHIM u-ma-ta-YIM
- sentence
va-ya-KU-mu leef-nei-HEM mo-SHEH va-a-na-SHIM mib-NEI yis-ra-EL kha-mi-SHIM u-ma-ta-YIM ne-si-EI e-DAH ke-ri-EI mo-ED an-SHEI SHEM
Exegesis
The coordinated expression wəʾănāšîm mibbənê-yisrāʾēl {וַאֲנָשִׁים מִבְּנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵל | wəʾănāšîm mibbənê-yisrāʾēl} ‘and men from the sons of Israel’ introduces participants, with numerals ḥammîšîm ūmāʾatāyim {חֲמִשִּׁים וּמָאתַיִם | ḥammîšîm ūmāʾatāyim} ‘fifty and two hundred’ following Hebrew quantitative sequence rules.
In context — Numbers 16:2
And they rose up before Moses—men from the sons of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the congregation , summoned to the assembly , men of renown.
About this coordinate
Numbers 16:2:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Numbers 16:2, so the Hebrew word חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים (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.16.2.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.16.2.W6.S1) and character.