Numbers 21:33:3Num.21.33.W3TAB
דֶּ֖רֶךְ
derekh
“by the way”
- Transliteration
- DE-rekh
- Extended
- DEH-rekh
- IPA
- /ˈdɛrɛx/
Meaning by language
- English
- by the way
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable |
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The word
Word in context
- word
DE-rekh
- clause
va-yif-NU va-ya-a-LU DE-rekh ha-ba-SHAN
- sentence
va-yif-NU va-ya-a-LU DE-rekh ha-ba-SHAN va-ye-TSE OG ME-lekh-ha-ba-SHAN lik-ra-TAM HU ve-KHOL-am-MO la-mil-kha-MA ed-re-I
Exegesis
The noun dereḳh {דֶּרֶךְ | dereḳh} introduces the route toward the region habbaššān {הַבָּשָׁן | habbaššān}.
Root and etymology
d-r-kDalet, Resh, Kaf
“path, way”
In context — Numbers 21:33
And they turned and went up by the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan came out to meet them, he and all his people, for the battle at Edrei .
About this coordinate
Numbers 21:33:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Numbers 21:33, so the Hebrew word דֶּ֖רֶךְ (derekh) 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.21.33.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.21.33.W3.S1) and character.