Numbers 16:21:1Num.16.21.W1TAB

הִבָּדְלוּ

hibadloo

Separate yourselves

Transliteration
hi-bad-LOO
Extended
hee-baad-LOO
IPA
/hib.baːdˈluː/

Meaning by language

English
Separate yourselves

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result
הִ + בָּדְ + לוּ
hi + bad + loo
hibadloo

Alphabet Analysis

Heh as in house; silent at word end
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Qametslong 'ah'
Daletd as in door
Shevasilent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable
Lamedl as in law
Vavv as in vine; marks long ō / ū

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Word in context

  1. word

    hi-bad-LOO

  2. sentence

    hi-bad-LOO mi-TOHKH ha-ey-DAH ha-ZOT va-a-kha-LEH o-TAM ke-ra-GA

Exegesis

The verse opens with the Niphal imperative hibbādlû {הִבָּ֣דְל֔וּ | hibbādlû} ‘separate yourselves’, issuing an urgent communal command.

Root and etymology

b-d-lBet-Dalet-Lamed

to separate

In contextNumbers 16:21

Separate yourselves from among this assembly, and I will consume them in an instant .

About this coordinate

Numbers 16:21:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Numbers 16:21, so the Hebrew word הִבָּדְלוּ (hibadloo) 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.16.21.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.16.21.W1.S1) and character.