Numbers 16:26:3Num.16.26.W3TAB
לֵאמֹר
lemor
“saying”
- Transliteration
- le-MOR
- Extended
- leh-MOHR
- IPA
- /leːˈmoːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- saying
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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Word in context
- word
le-MOR
- sentence
va-ye-da-BER el-ha-e-DAH le-MOR SU-ru NA me-AL o-ha-LEI ha-a-na-SHIM ha-re-sha-EEM ha-e-LEH ve-AL-TIG-u be-KHOL-a-sher la-HEM pen-ti-SA-fu be-KHOL-kha-to-TAM
Exegesis
Lemor {לֵאמֹ֗ר | lêʾêmôr} ‘saying’ marks the launch of the quotation.
Root and etymology
א־מ־ר
“to say”
In context — Numbers 16:26
And he spoke to the congregation, saying, “Turn aside now from the tents of these wicked ones , and do not touch anything that belongs to them, lest you be swept away because of all their sins.”
About this coordinate
Numbers 16:26:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Numbers 16:26, so the Hebrew word לֵאמֹר (lemor) 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.16.26.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.16.26.W3.S1) and character.