1 Chronicles 17:6:111 Chr.17.6.W11TAB
לִרְע֥וֹת
lirot
“to shepherd”
- Transliteration
- lir-OT
- Extended
- lihr-OHT
- IPA
- /lirˈʕoːt/
Meaning by language
- English
- to shepherd
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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Word in context
- word
lir-OT
- phraseyour reading level
lir-OT et-am-MI
- clause
be-KHOL a-sher-hit-ha-LAKH-ti be-khol-yis-ra-EL ha-da-VAR dib-BAR-ti et-a-KHAD shof-TE yis-ra-EL a-SHER tsi-VI-ti lir-OT et-am-MI le-MOR
- sentence
be-KHOL a-sher-hit-ha-LAKH-ti be-khol-yis-ra-EL ha-da-VAR dib-BAR-ti et-a-KHAD shof-TE yis-ra-EL a-SHER tsi-VI-ti lir-OT et-am-MI le-MOR la-MA lo-ve-ni-TEM LI BET a-ra-ZIM
Exegesis
The infinitive lirʿot {לִרְע֥וֹת | lirʿōṯ} ‘to shepherd’ provides the purpose/content of that commission (governing portrayed as pastoral care).
In context — 1 Chronicles 17:6
Wherever I have walked throughout all Israel, did I speak a word to any one of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd My people, saying, “Why have you not built for Me a house of cedars?”
About this coordinate
1 Chronicles 17:6:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of 1 Chronicles 17:6, so the Hebrew word לִרְע֥וֹת (lirot) 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.17.6.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Chr.17.6.W11.S1) and character.