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
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Nun Sofit | final form of Nun — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
mi-BEN
- 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 context — Numbers 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.