Numbers 2:28:6Num.2.28.W6TAB
וַחֲמֵ֥שׁ
vakhamesh
“and five”
- Transliteration
- va-kha-MESH
- Extended
- vah-kha-MEHSH
- IPA
- /vaħaˈmeːʃ/
Meaning by language
- English
- and five
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Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot |
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Word in context
- word
va-kha-MESH
- phraseyour reading level
va-kha-MESH me-OT
- clause
e-KHAD ve-ar-BA-im E-lef va-kha-MESH me-OT
- sentence
utse-VA-o uf-ke-de-HEM e-KHAD ve-ar-BA-im E-lef va-kha-MESH me-OT
Exegesis
The sequence echad ve’arba’im {אֶחָ֧ד וְאַרְבָּעִ֛ים | ʾe·ḥāḏ wə·ʾar·bā·ʿîm} ‘one and forty,’ elef {אֶ֖לֶף | ʾe·léph} ‘thousand,’ and vachamesh me’ot {וַחֲמֵ֥שׁ מֵאֽוֹת | wa·ḥă·mêsh mē·ʼôṯ} ‘and five hundreds’ follows Hebrew numerical stacking, which English reorders into the combined figure 41,500. The dual vav-clauses maintain parallelism between military and administrative registers, while the numeric phrase exhibits the Hebraic tens-plus-unit and hundreds format.
In context — Numbers 2:28
And his host and their counted men numbered 41,500.
About this coordinate
Numbers 2:28:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Numbers 2:28, so the Hebrew word וַחֲמֵ֥שׁ (vakhamesh) 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.2.28.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.2.28.W6.S1) and character.