Numbers 23:2:4Num.23.2.W4TAB
דִּבֶּ֣ר
diber
“had spoken”
- Transliteration
- di-BER
- Extended
- dih-BEHR
- IPA
- /dibˈber/
Meaning by language
- English
- had spoken
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
di-BER
- phraseyour reading level
di-BER bil-AM
- clause
va-ya-AS ba-LAK ka-a-SHER di-BER bil-AM
- sentence
va-ya-AS ba-LAK ka-a-SHER di-BER bil-AM va-ya-AL ba-LAK u-bil-AM PAR va-a-YIL ba-miz-BE-akh
Exegesis
The compound conjunction kaʾasher {כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר | kaʾăšer} ‘just as’ introduces a direct correspondence between Balaam’s speech dibber {דִּבֶּ֣ר | dībbēr} ‘he spoke’ and Balak’s action.
Root and etymology
Rootdalet-bet-resh
“word, matter, thing”
In context — Numbers 23:2
And Balak did just as Balaam had spoken, and Balak and Balaam offered up a bull and a ram on each altar .
About this coordinate
Numbers 23:2:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Numbers 23:2, so the Hebrew word דִּבֶּ֣ר (diber) 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.23.2.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.23.2.W4.S1) and character.