Numbers 22:18:14Num.22.18.W14TAB
לַעֲבֹר֙
laavor
“to transgress”
- Transliteration
- la-a-VOR
- Extended
- lah-ah-VOHR
- IPA
- /la.ʕaˈvoːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- to transgress
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
la-a-VOR
- clause
LO u-KHAL la-a-VOR et-PI Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HAI la-a-SOT ke-ta-NAH O ge-do-LAH
- sentence
va-YA-an bil-AM va-yo-MER el-av-DEI ba-LAK im-yi-TEN-li ba-LAK me-LO vei-TO KE-sef ve-za-HAV LO u-KHAL la-a-VOR et-PI Ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HAI la-a-SOT ke-ta-NAH O ge-do-LAH
Exegesis
The infinitive la·‘ă·ḇôr {לַעֲבֹר | la·‘ă·ḇôr} ‘to transgress’ functions as a purposive infinitive indicating breach.
In context — Numbers 22:18
And Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, “If Balak were to give me the fullness of his house, silver and gold, I could not transgress the command of the LORD my God to do the smallest or the greatest.”
About this coordinate
Numbers 22:18:14 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 14 of Numbers 22:18, so the Hebrew word לַעֲבֹר֙ (laavor) 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.22.18.W14, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.22.18.W14.S1) and character.