Numbers 16:26:6Num.16.26.W6TAB
מֵעַל
meal
“from upon”
- Transliteration
- me-AL
- Extended
- meh-AHL
- IPA
- /meˈʕal/
Meaning by language
- English
- from upon
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Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law |
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Word in context
- word
me-AL
- 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
Me‘al ohaley {מֵעַל אָהֳלֵ֨י | mēʿal ʾōhōlê} ‘from upon tents of’ establishes spatial separation.
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 16:26:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Numbers 16:26, so the Hebrew word מֵעַל (meal) 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.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.16.26.W6.S1) and character.