1 Kings 13:10:41 Kgs.13.10.W4TAB
וְלֹֽא־שָׁ֣ב
vehlohshav
“and he did not return”
- Transliteration
- veh-LOH-SHAV
- Extended
- veh-LOH-SHAAV
- IPA
- /wəloːˈʃaːv/
Meaning by language
- English
- and he did not return
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh |
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The word
Word in context
- word
veh-LOH-SHAV
- phraseyour reading level
veh-LOH-SHAV ba-DE-rekh
- clause
veh-LOH-SHAV ba-DE-rekh a-SHER BA VAH eL-BEIT-EL
- sentence
va-YEH-lekh be-DE-rekh a-KHER veh-LOH-SHAV ba-DE-rekh a-SHER BA VAH eL-BEIT-EL
Exegesis
The negative construction ve-lo-šāḇ {וְלֹֽא־שָׁ֣ב | ve-lo-šāḇ} ‘and he did not return’ emphasizes the refusal to reverse direction, followed by the specifying relative clause ba-dereḵ ašer ba-h {בַּדֶּ֔רֶךְ אֲשֶׁ֛ר בָּ֥א בָ֖הּ | ba-de-reḵ a-šer ba ba-h} ‘by the way which he came in it.’
Root and etymology
š-v-bshin–vav–bet
“to return”
In context — 1 Kings 13:10
And he went on another way , and he did not return by the way which he had come to Bethel .
About this coordinate
1 Kings 13:10:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of 1 Kings 13:10, so the Hebrew word וְלֹֽא־שָׁ֣ב (vehlohshav) 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 Kgs.13.10.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.13.10.W4.S1) and character.