Numbers 2:8:4Num.2.8.W4TAB
וַחֲמִשִּׁ֛ים
vachamishim
“and fifty”
- Transliteration
- va-cha-mi-SHIM
- Extended
- vah-kha-mee-SHEEM
- IPA
- /vaħamiˈʃːim/
Meaning by language
- English
- and fifty
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
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 | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
va-cha-mi-SHIM
- phraseyour reading level
shiv-AH va-cha-mi-SHIM
- clause
shiv-AH va-cha-mi-SHIM E-lef ve-AR-ba me-OT
- sentence
u-tse-VA-o u-fe-ku-DA-v shiv-AH va-cha-mi-SHIM E-lef ve-AR-ba me-OT
Exegesis
The Hebrew cardinal numbers are linked additively by vav conjunctions: shivah {שִׁבְעָ֧ה | šivʿāh} ‘seven’, wa-chamishim {וַחֲמִשִּׁ֛ים | wa-ḥă-miššîm} ‘and fifty’, and elef {אֶ֖לֶף | ʾe-lef} ‘thousand’ combine to form 57,000; ve-arba {וְאַרְבַּ֥ע | wə-ʿăr-bāʿ} ‘and four’ and meot {מֵאֽוֹת | mê-ʾôt} ‘hundreds’ add an additional 400. This structure highlights both military designation and precise enumeration.
In context — Numbers 2:8
And his army and his counted ones were 57,400.
About this coordinate
Numbers 2:8:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Numbers 2:8, so the Hebrew word וַחֲמִשִּׁ֛ים (vachamishim) 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.2.8.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.2.8.W4.S1) and character.