1 Chronicles 14:3:41 Chr.14.3.W4TAB
נָשִׁ֖ים
nashim
“women or wives”
- Transliteration
- na-SHIM
- Extended
- nah-SHEEM
- IPA
- /naːˈʃiːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- women or wives
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
na-SHIM
- clause
va-yik-KAKH da-VID OD na-SHIM bi-ru-sha-LA-im
- sentence
va-yik-KAKH da-VID OD na-SHIM bi-ru-sha-LA-im va-yo-LED da-VID OD ba-NIM u-va-NOT
Exegesis
The coordinated pair nashim {נָשִׁים | nāšîm} ‘women, wives’ and uvanot {וּבָנֽוֹת | wə-bānôṯ} ‘and daughters’ frames the scope of his offspring, while banim {בָּנִים | bānîm} ‘sons’ specifies male lineage.
Root and etymology
n-š-hnun–shin–heh
“woman, wife”
In context — 1 Chronicles 14:3
And David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David fathered more sons and daughters there.
About this coordinate
1 Chronicles 14:3:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of 1 Chronicles 14:3, so the Hebrew word נָשִׁ֖ים (nashim) 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 1 Chr.14.3.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Chr.14.3.W4.S1) and character.