1 Chronicles 18:16:71 Chr.18.16.W7TAB
סוֹפֵֽר׃
sofer
“scribe or secretary”
- Transliteration
- so-FER
- Extended
- soh-FEER
- IPA
- /soːˈfeːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- scribe or secretary
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Samekh | s as in sit | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
so-FER
- clause
ve-shav-SHA so-FER
- sentence
ve-tsa-DOK ben-a-khi-TUV va-a-vi-ME-lekh ben-ev-ya-TAR ko-ha-NIM ve-shav-SHA so-FER
Exegesis
The second clause introduced by ve-shavsha {וְשַׁוְשָׁ֖א | wə-ša-w-šāʾ} “and Shavsha” lacks an overt copula, making sofer {סוֹפֵֽר | sō-p̄ēr} “scribe” its predicate nominative. The use of the vav conjunction to link nominal clauses without a verb is characteristic of Hebrew parataxis. In English, the zero-copula is rendered with “were” in the formal to mirror the construct and with “served as” in the dynamic to convey the functional role.
Root and etymology
s-p-rsamekh–pe–resh
“to write, to record”
In context — 1 Chronicles 18:16
And Zadok son of Ahitub and Avimelekh son of Abiathar were priests , and Shavsha was scribe .
About this coordinate
1 Chronicles 18:16:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of 1 Chronicles 18:16, so the Hebrew word סוֹפֵֽר׃ (sofer) 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.18.16.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Chr.18.16.W7.S1) and character.