נָקִ֔י

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 נָקִ֔י

   na-KI

   one free, exempt
2. phraseyour reading level🔊 אֵ֣ין נָקִ֔י

   EN na-KI

   there is not one free, exempt
3. clause🔊 וְהַמֶּ֨לֶךְ אָסָ֜א הִשְׁמִ֤יעַ אֶת־כָּל־יְהוּדָה֙ אֵ֣ין נָקִ֔י וַיִּשְׂא֞וּ אֶת־אַבְנֵ֤י הָֽרָמָה֙ וְאֶת־עֵצֶ֔יהָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר בָּנָ֖ה בַּעְשָׁ֑א

   ve-ham-ME-lekh A-sa hish-mi-A et-KOL-ye-hu-DA EN na-KI va-yis-E-u et-av-NE ha-ra-MA ve-et-e-TSE-ha a-SHER ba-NA ba-SHA

   and the king Asa made heard, proclaimed {direct object} all Judah there is not one free, exempt and they carried, lifted {direct object} stones of Ramah and {direct object} its timber, its wood which he built, had built Baasha
4. sentence🔊 וְהַמֶּ֨לֶךְ אָסָ֜א הִשְׁמִ֤יעַ אֶת־כָּל־יְהוּדָה֙ אֵ֣ין נָקִ֔י וַיִּשְׂא֞וּ אֶת־אַבְנֵ֤י הָֽרָמָה֙ וְאֶת־עֵצֶ֔יהָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר בָּנָ֖ה בַּעְשָׁ֑א וַיִּ֤בֶן בָּם֙ הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ אָסָ֔א אֶת־גֶּ֥בַע בִּנְיָמִ֖ן וְאֶת־הַמִּצְפָּֽה׃

   ve-ham-ME-lekh A-sa hish-mi-A et-KOL-ye-hu-DA EN na-KI va-yis-E-u et-av-NE ha-ra-MA ve-et-e-TSE-ha a-SHER ba-NA ba-SHA va-yi-VEN BAM ham-ME-lekh A-sa et-GE-va bin-ya-MIN ve-et-ham-mits-PA

   and the king Asa made heard, proclaimed {direct object} all Judah there is not one free, exempt and they carried, lifted {direct object} stones of Ramah and {direct object} its timber, its wood which he built, had built Baasha and he built with them, by them the king Asa {direct object} Geba of Benjamin and {direct object} the Mizpah

Exegesis

The object chain et-kol-yehudah {אֶת־כָּל־יְהוּדָה֙ | ʾeṯ-kol-yə-hûḏāh} portrays the proclamation’s total scope, and the terse existential negation ein naki {אֵ֣ין נָקִ֔י | ʾên nāqî} ‘there was no exempt one’ functions as an emphatic parenthetical, pressing universal participation.

Root and etymology

consonants🔊 נ־ק־יnun–qof–yod

“to be clean, to be free”