Numbers 16:48:6Num.16.48.W6TABWLC Numbers 17:13
וַתֵּעָצַ֖ר
vateatsar
“and was stopped”
- Transliteration
- va-te-a-TSAR
- Extended
- vah-teh-aa-TSAHR
- IPA
- /vat.te.ʕaˈtsar/
Meaning by language
- English
- and was stopped
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-te-a-TSAR
- clause
va-te-a-TSAR ha-ma-ge-FA
- sentence
va-ya-a-MOD BEIN ha-me-TIM u-BEIN ha-kha-YIM va-te-a-TSAR ha-ma-ge-FA
Exegesis
The narrative employs the vav-consecutive forms vayya'amod {וַיַּעֲמֹד | va-ya-ʿa-mō-ḏ} ‘and he stood’ and vatte'atzar {וַתֵּעָצַר | va-tê-ʿā-ṣar} ‘and it was stopped’ to present sequential actions.
Root and etymology
ע־צ־ר
“to restrain, halt”
In context — Numbers 16:48
And he stood between the dead and between the living, and the plague was halted.
About this coordinate
Numbers 16:48:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Numbers 16:48, so the Hebrew word וַתֵּעָצַ֖ר (vateatsar) 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.16.48.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.16.48.W6.S1) and character.