1 Kings 13:26:181 Kgs.13.26.W18TAB
וַיְמִתֵ֔הוּ
vayemitehu
“killed him”
- Transliteration
- va-ye-mi-TE-HU
- Extended
- vah-yeh-mih-TEH-HOO
- IPA
- /vaj.jə.miˈteː.huː/
Meaning by language
- English
- killed him
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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Word in context
- word
va-ye-mi-TE-HU
- clause
va-yit-te-NE-hu ye-ho-VAH la-ar-YE va-yish-be-RE-HU va-ye-mi-TE-HU kid-VAR ye-ho-VAH a-SHER dib-BER-LO
- sentence
va-yish-MA ha-na-VI a-SHER he-shi-VO min-ha-DE-rekh va-yo-MER ISH ha-e-lo-HIM HU a-SHER ma-RA et-PI ye-ho-VAH va-yit-te-NE-hu ye-ho-VAH la-ar-YE va-yish-be-RE-HU va-ye-mi-TE-HU kid-VAR ye-ho-VAH a-SHER dib-BER-LO
Exegesis
The sequential divine-judicial verbs vayittenehu, vayishberehu, vayemitehu {וַיִּתְּנֵהוּ, וַֽיִּשְׁבְּרֵהוּ֙, וַיְמִתֵ֔הוּ | wayyiṭnēhū, wayyišberehū, wayyəmītehū} ‘gave him over’, ‘mauled him’, ‘killed him’ underscore divine action.
In context — 1 Kings 13:26
When the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard it, he said, “It is the man of God who rebelled against the mouth of the LORD . So the LORD gave him over to the lion, and the lion mauled him and killed him, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke to him.”
About this coordinate
1 Kings 13:26:18 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 18 of 1 Kings 13:26, so the Hebrew word וַיְמִתֵ֔הוּ (vayemitehu) 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.13.26.W18, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.13.26.W18.S1) and character.