1 Chronicles 16:8:21 Chr.16.8.W2TAB
לַֽיהוָה֙
layehovah
“to the LORD”
- Transliteration
- la-ye-ho-VAH
- Extended
- lah-yeh-hoh-VAH
- IPA
- /la.jəhoˈvaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- to the LORD
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
la-ye-ho-VAH
- phraseyour reading level
ho-DOO la-ye-ho-VAH
- sentence
ho-DOO la-ye-ho-VAH kir-E-OO vish-e-MO ho-di-I-OO va-a-MIM a-li-lo-TAV
Exegesis
Each verb is followed by a prepositional phrase—lă-Yəhōwāh {לַיהוָה | lă-Yəhōwāh} ‘to the LORD’, bišmô {בִּשְׁמוֹ | bišmô} ‘in His name’, bāʿammîm ʿălilôtāw {בָעַמִּים עֲלִילוֹתָיו | bāʿammîm ʿălilôtāw} ‘among the peoples His deeds’. The construct chain in ʿălilôtāw links ‘deeds’ to the suffix ‘His’, specifying the content of proclamation. This structure forms a parallelism that escalates from gratitude to invocation to global testimony.
Root and etymology
h-y-hheh–yod–heh
“to be; self-existent”
In context — 1 Chronicles 16:8
Give thanks to the LORD ; call on His name; make known among the peoples His deeds .
About this coordinate
1 Chronicles 16:8:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of 1 Chronicles 16:8, so the Hebrew word לַֽיהוָה֙ (layehovah) 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.16.8.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Chr.16.8.W2.S1) and character.