Numbers 26:2:5Num.26.2.W5TAB

מִבֶּן

miben

from a son of

Transliteration
mi-BEN
Extended
mee-BEHN
IPA
/miˈbɛn/

Meaning by language

English
from a son of

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Result
מִ + בֶּן
mi + ben
miben

Alphabet Analysis

Memm as in mother
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Betb with dagesh; v without dagesh
Segholshort 'eh' as in met
Nun Sofitfinal form of Nun — at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    mi-BEN

  2. sentence

    se-U ET-ROSH KOL-a-DAT be-NEI-yis-ra-EL mi-BEN es-RIM sha-NA va-ma-LA le-VEIT-a-vo-TAM KOL-yo-TSE tsa-VA be-yis-ra-EL

Exegesis

The age qualification miben esrim shanah vamalah {מִבֶּ֨ן עֶשְׂרִ֥ים שָׁנָ֛ה וָמַ֖עְלָה | mi·ben ʿe·śrîm šā·nāh wə·maʿ·lāh} ‘from twenty years old and upward’ forms a temporal and quantitative phrase.

Root and etymology

b-nbet-nun

son, descendant

In contextNumbers 26:2

Lift up the heads of all the assembly of the sons of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by the house of their fathers; all who go out to the army in Israel.

About this coordinate

Numbers 26:2:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Numbers 26:2, so the Hebrew word מִבֶּן (miben) 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.26.2.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.26.2.W5.S1) and character.