1 Kings 14:5:81 Kgs.14.5.W8TAB
לִדְרֹשׁ֩
lidrosh
“to inquire”
- Transliteration
- lid-ROSH
- Extended
- lihd-ROHSH
- IPA
- /lidˈroːʃ/
Meaning by language
- English
- to inquire
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot |
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The word
Word in context
- word
lid-ROSH
- phraseyour reading level
ba-A lid-ROSH da-VAR me-im-ME-kha el-be-NA
- clause
va-ye-ho-VAH a-MAR el-a-khi-YA-hu hin-NE E-shet ya-rav-AM ba-A lid-ROSH da-VAR me-im-ME-kha el-be-NA ki-kho-LE HU ka-ZO ve-kha-ZE te-dab-BER e-LE-ha
- sentence
va-ye-ho-VAH a-MAR el-a-khi-YA-hu hin-NE E-shet ya-rav-AM ba-A lid-ROSH da-VAR me-im-ME-kha el-be-NA ki-kho-LE HU ka-ZO ve-kha-ZE te-dab-BER e-LE-ha vi-ye-HI khe-vo-A ve-hi mit-na-ke-RA
Exegesis
The sequence baah lidrosh davar {בָּאָ֣ה לִדְרֹשׁ דָּבָ֨ר | bā’āh • liḏrôš • dāḇār} expresses purpose (‘coming to inquire a matter’) and is specified by meimmekha el-benah {מֵעִמְּךָ֤ אֶל־בְּנָהּ֙ | mē‘imməḵā • ʾel-bə-nāh} ‘from you toward her son.’
In context — 1 Kings 14:5
The LORD said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you about her son, for he is ill; thus and thus you shall say to her. And it shall be, when she comes in, that she will disguise herself.”
About this coordinate
1 Kings 14:5:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of 1 Kings 14:5, so the Hebrew word לִדְרֹשׁ֩ (lidrosh) 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.14.5.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.14.5.W8.S1) and character.