1 Kings 14:2:211 Kgs.14.2.W21TAB
עַל־הָעָ֥ם
alhaam
“over the people”
- Transliteration
- al-ha-AM
- Extended
- ahl-haa-AM
- IPA
- /ʕal.haːˈʕaːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- over the people
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
al-ha-AM
- phraseyour reading level
al-ha-AM ha-ZE
- clause
ve-ha-LAKHT shi-LO hi-NE-sham a-khi-YA ha-na-VI hu-di-BER a-LAI le-ME-lekh al-ha-AM ha-ZE
- sentence
va-YO-mer ya-rav-AM le-ish-TO ku-MI NA ve-hish-ta-NIT ve-LO ye-de-U ki-e-TI AT E-shet ya-rav-AM ve-ha-LAKHT shi-LO hi-NE-sham a-khi-YA ha-na-VI hu-di-BER a-LAI le-ME-lekh al-ha-AM ha-ZE
Exegesis
The emphatic pronoun hu-diber {הֽוּא־דִבֶּ֥ר | hû’ dibbēr} ‘he spoke’ clarifies agency, and the prepositional phrases alai lemelech al-ha’am hazeh {עָלַ֛י לְמֶ֖לֶךְ עַל־הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּֽה׃ | ‘ālāy lemeleḵ ‘al-hā‘ām hazzēh} ‘concerning me to be king over this people’ convey the prophetic content. The English translation renders the Hebrew sequence smoothly, balancing directness and narrative coherence.
Root and etymology
consonantsayin–lamed–heh
“to go up, ascend”
In context — 1 Kings 14:2
And Jeroboam said to his wife , “Arise, please, and disguise yourself , so that they will not know that you are the wife of Jeroboam. And go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there—he spoke concerning me that I should be king over this people.”
About this coordinate
1 Kings 14:2:21 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 21 of 1 Kings 14:2, so the Hebrew word עַל־הָעָ֥ם (alhaam) 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.14.2.W21, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.14.2.W21.S1) and character.