Exodus 3:1:12Exod.3.1.W12PAT
הַמִּדְבָּ֔ר
hammidbar
“the wilderness”
- Transliteration
- ham-mid-BAR
- Extended
- hah-mid-BAAR
- IPA
- /ham.midˈbaːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- the wilderness
- French
- le désert
- Spanish
- el desierto
- Portuguese
- o deserto
- German
- die Wüste
- Russian
- пустыню
- Arabic-Simplified
- الْبَرِّيَّةَ
- Hindi
- मरुभूमि
- Chinese-Simplified
- 旷野
- Korean
- 그 광야
- Indonesian
- padang gurun
- Bengali
- মরুভূমি
- Tagalog
- ang ilang
- Swahili
- jangwa
- Amharic
- ምድረ በዳውን
- Yoruba
- aginjù naa
- Igbo
- ọzara ahụ
- Twi
- sare no
- Ewe
- gbeadzã la
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
ham-mid-BAR
- phraseyour reading level
a-KHAR ham-mid-BAR
- clause
va-yin-HAG et-ha-TSON a-KHAR ham-mid-BAR va-ya-VO el-HAR ha-e-lo-HIM kho-re-VA
- sentence
u-mo-SHE ha-YA ro-EH et-TSON yit-RO khot-NO ko-HEN mid-YAN va-yin-HAG et-ha-TSON a-KHAR ham-mid-BAR va-ya-VO el-HAR ha-e-lo-HIM kho-re-VA
In context — Exodus 3:1
And Moses was shepherding the flock of Jethro his father-in-law priest of Midian and he led the flock behind the wilderness and he came to the mountain of God Horeb
About this coordinate
Exodus 3:1:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Exodus 3:1, so the Hebrew word הַמִּדְבָּ֔ר (hammidbar) 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 Exod.3.1.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Exod.3.1.W12.S1) and character.