1 Kings 13:8:71 Kgs.13.8.W7TAB
לֹ֥א
lo
“not”
- Transliteration
- LO
- Extended
- LOH
- IPA
- /loː/
Meaning by language
- English
- not
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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Word in context
- word
LO
- phraseyour reading level
LO a-VO
- clause
va-YO-mer ISH-ha-e-lo-HIM el-ha-ME-lekh im-ti-TEN-li et-kha-TSI BE-te-kha LO a-VO im-MA-kh
- sentence
va-YO-mer ISH-ha-e-lo-HIM el-ha-ME-lekh im-ti-TEN-li et-kha-TSI BE-te-kha LO a-VO im-MA-kh ve-LO-o-KHAL LE-khem ve-LO esh-TE-ma-YIM ba-ma-KOM ha-ZE
Exegesis
The sequence of negatives lo {לֹ֥א | lōʾ} + avo {אָבֹ֖א | ʼā·ḇōʾ} ‘I will come’, velo {וְלֹֽא־ | wə·lōʾ} + okhal {אֹ֤כַל | ʼō·ḵal} ‘I will eat’, and velo {וְלֹ֣א | wə·lōʾ} + eshteh {אֶשְׁתֶּה־ | ʼeš·teh} ‘I will drink’ with mayim {מַיִם | ma·yim} ‘water’ employs parallelism to emphasize refusal.
Root and etymology
l-ʾ-klamed–aleph–kaph
“to send”
In context — 1 Kings 13:8
But the man of God said to the king, “Even if you were to give me half your house, I would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place.”
About this coordinate
1 Kings 13:8:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of 1 Kings 13:8, so the Hebrew word לֹ֥א (lo) 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.13.8.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.13.8.W7.S1) and character.