Numbers 16:33:9Num.16.33.W9TAB
הָאָרֶץ
haaretz
“the earth”
- Transliteration
- ha-A-retz
- Extended
- hah-AA-retz
- IPA
- /haːˈʔaːrɛts/
Meaning by language
- English
- the earth
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Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tsade Sofit | final form of Tsade — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
ha-A-retz
- sentence
va-yer-DU HEM ve-KOL-a-SHER la-HEM kha-YIM she-o-LAH va-te-KHAS a-lei-HEM ha-A-retz va-yo-ev-DU mi-TOHKH ha-ka-HAL
Exegesis
In the following clause, vatechas {וַתְּכַ֤ס | wa-təḵās} ‘and it covered’ with feminine agreement to haaretz {הָאָ֔רֶץ | hāʾāreṣ} ‘the earth’ personifies the land as agent of judgment.
Root and etymology
א־ר־ץ
“land, territory”
In context — Numbers 16:33
And they went down, they and all that belonged to them, alive into Sheol ; and the earth covered them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.
About this coordinate
Numbers 16:33:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Numbers 16:33, so the Hebrew word הָאָרֶץ (haaretz) 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.16.33.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.16.33.W9.S1) and character.