Numbers 2:13:1Num.2.13.W1TAB
וּצְבָא֖וֹ
utsevao
“and his company”
- Transliteration
- u-tse-VA-o
- Extended
- oo-tseh-VAH-oh
- IPA
- /ut͡səvaˈʔoː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and his company
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go |
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The word
Word in context
- word
u-tse-VA-o
- clause
u-tse-VA-o u-pek-u-DEI-hem
- sentence
u-tse-VA-o u-pek-u-DEI-hem tish-A va-kha-mi-SHIM E-lef u-shLOSH me-OT
Exegesis
The verse opens with the compound subject utsevao {וּצְבָא֖וֹ | ū-ṣə-ḇāʾ} ‘and his army’ and ufekudeihem {וּפְקֻדֵיהֶ֑ם | ū-pə-qû-dê-hêm} ‘and their numbered ones’ in construct form, where the vav-conjunctions link the two nouns.
Root and etymology
צ־ב־א
“to wage war”
In context — Numbers 2:13
And his army and their enrolled men totaled 59,300.
About this coordinate
Numbers 2:13:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Numbers 2:13, so the Hebrew word וּצְבָא֖וֹ (utsevao) 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.2.13.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.2.13.W1.S1) and character.