1 Chronicles 19:18:171 Chr.19.18.W17TAB
שַֽׂר־הַצָּבָ֖א
sarhatsava
“commander of the army”
- Transliteration
- sar-ha-tsa-VA
- Extended
- sahr-hah-tsah-VAA
- IPA
- /sar.hat.tsɔːˈvaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- commander of the army
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
sar-ha-tsa-VA
- phraseyour reading level
sho-FAKH sar-ha-tsa-VA
- clause
ve-ET sho-FAKH sar-ha-tsa-VA he-MIT
- sentence
va-NAHS a-RAM mi-lif-NE yis-ra-EL va-ya-ha-ROG da-VID me-a-RAM shiv-AT a-la-FIM RE-khev ve-ar-ba-IM E-lef ISH rag-LI ve-ET sho-FAKH sar-ha-tsa-VA he-MIT
Exegesis
The direct object marker veet {וְאֵת | wəʾēt} introduces Shophakh {שׁוֹפַךְ | Šōphaḵ} and his title sar-hatsava {שַׂר־הַצָּבָא | sar-haṣṣābāʾ}, highlighting David’s agency in hemit {הֵמִית | hēmiṯ} ‘he put to death.’ English rendering shifts the construct structure into idiomatic military terms and uses apposition to convey rank and role.
Root and etymology
ś-r
“ruler”
In context — 1 Chronicles 19:18
And Aram fled before Israel, and David killed seven thousand chariot troops and forty thousand foot soldiers . He then put to death Shophakh, the commander of the army.
About this coordinate
1 Chronicles 19:18:17 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 17 of 1 Chronicles 19:18, so the Hebrew word שַֽׂר־הַצָּבָ֖א (sarhatsava) 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.19.18.W17, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Chr.19.18.W17.S1) and character.