Numbers 21:26:3Num.21.26.W3TAB
עִ֗יר
ir
“city”
- Transliteration
- IR
- Extended
- EER
- IPA
- /ˈʔiːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- city
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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Word in context
- word
IR
- clause
KI khesh-BON IR si-KHON ME-lekh ha-e-mo-RI HI
- sentence
KI khesh-BON IR si-KHON ME-lekh ha-e-mo-RI HI ve-HU nil-KHAM be-ME-lekh mo-AV ha-ri-SHON va-yik-KAKH ET-kol-artSO mi-ya-DO ad-ar-NON
Exegesis
The construct chain cheshbon ʿir sichon melek ha-emori {חֶשְׁבּוֹן עִיר סִיחֹן מֶלֶךְ הָאֱמֹרִי | ḥešbôn ʿîr sî-kḥôn mêlek hā-ʾe-mô-rî} ‘Heshbon, city of Sihon the Amorite king’ presents Heshbon as belonging to Sihon.
In context — Numbers 21:26
For Heshbon was the city of Sihon, king of the Amorites , and it was he who fought against the first king of Moab and took his entire territory from his hand as far as the Arnon.
About this coordinate
Numbers 21:26:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Numbers 21:26, so the Hebrew word עִ֗יר (ir) 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.21.26.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.21.26.W3.S1) and character.