Numbers 27:3:2Num.27.3.W2TAB

מֵ֣ת

met

died

Transliteration
MET
Extended
MEET
IPA
/meːt/

Meaning by language

English
died

Alphabet Analysis

Memm as in mother
Tserelong 'ey' as in they
Tavt as in top

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Word in context

  1. word

    MET

  2. phraseyour reading level

    MET ba-mid-BAR

  3. clause

    a-vi-NU MET ba-mid-BAR ve-HU LO ha-YA be-TOKH ha-e-DA ha-no-a-DIM al-ye-ho-VAH ba-a-dat-KO-rakh

  4. sentence

    a-vi-NU MET ba-mid-BAR ve-HU LO ha-YA be-TOKH ha-e-DA ha-no-a-DIM al-ye-ho-VAH ba-a-dat-KO-rakh ki ve-khet-O MET u-va-NIM LO ha-YU LO

Exegesis

The verb met {מֵת | mēt} ‘died’ marks a completed action followed by ba-midbar {בַּמִּדְבָּר | ba-mid-bār} ‘in the wilderness,’ situating the event historically.

The causal conjunction ki introduces be-chet’o met {בְחֶטְא֣וֹ מֵ֔ת | bə-ḥet-ʾō mēt} ‘in his sin he died,’ linking guilt to death.

In contextNumbers 27:3

Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the midst of the congregation—the ones assembling against the LORD in the company of Korah; rather, he died for his own sin and he had no sons.

About this coordinate

Numbers 27:3:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Numbers 27:3, so the Hebrew word מֵ֣ת (met) 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.27.3.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.27.3.W2.S1) and character.