1 Kings 14:25:41 Kgs.14.25.W4TAB
לַמֶּ֣לֶךְ
lamelekh
“of the king”
- Transliteration
- la-ME-lekh
- Extended
- lah-MEH-lehkh
- IPA
- /lamˈmɛlɛx/
Meaning by language
- English
- of the king
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable |
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Word in context
- word
la-ME-lekh
- phraseyour reading level
la-ME-lekh re-khab-AM
- clause
va-ye-HI ba-sha-NA ha-kha-mi-SHIT la-ME-lekh re-khab-AM
- sentence
va-ye-HI ba-sha-NA ha-kha-mi-SHIT la-ME-lekh re-khab-AM a-LA sho-SHAK shi-SHAK ME-lekh-mits-RA-yim al-ye-ru-sha-LIM
Exegesis
A fronted temporal frame, bashanah hachamishit {בַּשָּׁנָ֥ה הַחֲמִישִׁ֖ית | baš-šā-nāh ha-ḥă-mî-šît} ‘in the fifth year’, anchors the event to a regnal chronology; the following phrase lamelekh rechavam {לַמֶּ֣לֶךְ רְחַבְעָ֑ם | lam-me-lek rə-ḥaḇ-ʿām} uses the lamed construction as a dating idiom meaning “in the reign of King Rehoboam.”
Root and etymology
consonantsmem–lamed–kaf
“to reign, rule”
In context — 1 Kings 14:25
And it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.
About this coordinate
1 Kings 14:25:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of 1 Kings 14:25, so the Hebrew word לַמֶּ֣לֶךְ (lamelekh) 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.14.25.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.14.25.W4.S1) and character.