1 Kings 13:34:91 Kgs.13.34.W9TAB
מֵעַ֖ל
meal
“from upon”
- Transliteration
- me-AL
- Extended
- meh-AL
- IPA
- /meːˈʕal/
Meaning by language
- English
- from upon
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law |
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Word in context
- word
me-AL
- clause
u-le-hakh-KHID u-le-hash-MID me-AL pe-NE ha-a-da-MA
- sentence
va-ye-HI bad-da-VAR ha-ZE le-khat-TAT BET ya-rav-AM u-le-hakh-KHID u-le-hash-MID me-AL pe-NE ha-a-da-MA
Exegesis
The phrase mē‘al pnê hā’ăḏāmāh {מֵעַ֖ל פְּנֵ֥י הָאֲדָמָֽה | mē‘al pnê hā’ăḏāmāh} ‘from upon the face of the earth’ conveys total eradication via a common biblical idiom. The English ordering preserves sequence and clarifies relationships among infinitive clauses and the prepositional phrase.
In context — 1 Kings 13:34
And it came to be in this matter that the house of Jeroboam sinned and was cut off and destroyed from upon the face of the earth .
About this coordinate
1 Kings 13:34:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of 1 Kings 13:34, so the Hebrew word מֵעַ֖ל (meal) 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.13.34.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.13.34.W9.S1) and character.