1 Kings 14:3:141 Kgs.14.3.W14TAB
לַנָּֽעַר׃
lanaar
“to the boy or child”
- Transliteration
- la-NA-ar
- Extended
- lah-NAA-ah r
- IPA
- /lanˈnaː.ʕar/
Meaning by language
- English
- to the boy or child
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
la-NA-ar
- clause
HU ya-GID LAKH ma-YI-ye la-NA-ar
- sentence
ve-la-KHAKHT be-ya-DEKH a-sa-RA LE-khem ve-nik-ku-DIM u-vak-buk de-VASH u-VAAT e-LAV HU ya-GID LAKH ma-YI-ye la-NA-ar
Exegesis
The clause hūʾ yaggīḏ lāḵ māh-yihyēh la-nāʿār {הוּא יַגִּיד לָךְ מַה־יִהְיֶה לַנָּעַר | hūʾ yag-gīḏ lāḵ māh-yih-hyēh la-nāʿ-ār} forms a subject-verb-indirect-object-result structure, literally ‘he will tell to you what will be to the boy’. In English the order is shifted to SVO for clarity while preserving the Hebrew sequence.
Root and etymology
n-ʿ-rnun–ayin–resh
“boy, youth”
In context — 1 Kings 14:3
And you shall take in your hand ten loaves of bread, and cakes , and a jar of honey, and go to him; he will tell you what will happen to the boy .
About this coordinate
1 Kings 14:3:14 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 14 of 1 Kings 14:3, so the Hebrew word לַנָּֽעַר׃ (lanaar) 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.14.3.W14, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.14.3.W14.S1) and character.