1 Chronicles 17:21:201 Chr.17.21.W20TAB

עַמְּךָ֛

ammekha

your people

Transliteration
am-ME-kha
Extended
ahm-MEH-khah
IPA
/ʕamˈmɛxaː/

Meaning by language

English
your people

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Result
עַמ + מְּ + ךָ֛
am + me + kha
ammekha

Alphabet Analysis

Ayindeep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal
Patachshort 'ah' as in father
Memm as in mother
Shevavocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
Kaf Sofitfinal form of Kaf — at word end
Qametslong 'ah'

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Word in context

  1. word

    am-ME-kha

  2. phraseyour reading level

    mip-pe-NE am-ME-kha

  3. clause

    a-SHER ha-LAKH ha-e-lo-HIM lif-DOT LO AM la-SUM le-KHA SHEM ge-du-LOT ve-no-OT le-ga-RESH mip-pe-NE am-ME-kha a-sher-pa-DI-ta mim-mits-ra-YIM go-YIM

  4. sentence

    u-MI ke-am-ME-kha yis-ra-EL GOY e-KHAD ba-A-rets a-SHER ha-LAKH ha-e-lo-HIM lif-DOT LO AM la-SUM le-KHA SHEM ge-du-LOT ve-no-OT le-ga-RESH mip-pe-NE am-ME-kha a-sher-pa-DI-ta mim-mits-ra-YIM go-YIM

Exegesis

The Piel infinitive lə-ḡā-reš {לְגָרֵ֗שׁ | lə-ḡā-reš} ‘to drive out’ introduces expulsion, and mippə-nê ʿam-mə-ḵâ {מִפְּנֵ֧י עַמְּךָ֛ | mippə-nê ʿam-mə-ḵâ} ‘from before Your people’ indicates spatial relation.

In context1 Chronicles 17:21

And who is like Your people Israel, one nation on earth, for whom God went to redeem for Himself a people, and to make for You a name through great and awesome deeds , driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed from Egypt, from among the nations?

About this coordinate

1 Chronicles 17:21:20 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 20 of 1 Chronicles 17:21, so the Hebrew word עַמְּךָ֛ (ammekha) 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.17.21.W20, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Chr.17.21.W20.S1) and character.