Numbers 24:3:9Num.24.3.W9TAB
הַגֶּ֖בֶר
hagever
“the man”
- Transliteration
- ha-GE-ver
- Extended
- hah-GE-vehR
- IPA
- /haˈɡɛvɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- the man
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Gimel | g as in good | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| 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
ha-GE-ver
- phraseyour reading level
u-ne-UM ha-GE-ver
- clause
ne-UM bil-AM be-NO be-OR u-ne-UM ha-GE-ver she-TUM ha-AI-in
- sentence
va-yi-SA me-sha-LO va-yo-MAR ne-UM bil-AM be-NO be-OR u-ne-UM ha-GE-ver she-TUM ha-AI-in
Exegesis
The nominal phrase hagever shtum haayin {הַגֶּבֶר שְׁתֻם הָעַיִן | haggĕḇer šĕtûm hā’āyin} literally reads “the man whose eye is shut” but idiomatically means “the man whose eye is opened,” conveying clear prophetic vision within a balanced rhetorical frame.
Root and etymology
g-b-rgimel–bet–resh
“strong man”
In context — Numbers 24:3
And he lifted up his oracle and said, “The utterance of Balaam son of Beor, and the utterance of the man whose eye is opened .”
About this coordinate
Numbers 24:3:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Numbers 24:3, so the Hebrew word הַגֶּ֖בֶר (hagever) 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.24.3.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.24.3.W9.S1) and character.