1 Kings 15:29:61 Kgs.15.29.W6TAB

לֹֽא־הִשְׁאִ֧יר

lohisheir

“he did not leave”

Transliteration: lo-hi-she-IR
Extended: loh-hih-sheh-EER
IPA: /loː.hiʃˈʔiːr/

Meaning by language

English: he did not leave

Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it

Result

לֹֽא + הִ + שְׁ + אִ֧יר

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lo + hi + she + ir

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lohisheir

Alphabet Analysis

	Lamed	l as in law
	Holem	long 'oh' as in go
	Aleph	silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
	He	h as in house; silent at word end
	Hireq	'ee' as in machine
	Shin	shin with right dot; sin with left dot
	Sheva	vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable
	Aleph	silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points
	Hireq	'ee' as in machine
	Yod	y as in yes; marks long ī
	Resh	r guttural, like the French r

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The word

Word in context

word
lo-hi-she-IR
phraseyour reading level
lo-hi-she-IR kol-ne-sha-MA
clause
va-ye-HI khe-mal-KHO hi-KA et-KOL-BET ya-ra-VA-am lo-hi-she-IR kol-ne-sha-MA le-ya-ra-VA-am ad-hi-shmi-DO
sentence
va-ye-HI khe-mal-KHO hi-KA et-KOL-BET ya-ra-VA-am lo-hi-she-IR kol-ne-sha-MA le-ya-ra-VA-am ad-hi-shmi-DO ki-dvar Ye-ho-VAH a-SHER di-BER be-YAD-av-DO a-khi-YA ha-shi-lo-NI

Exegesis

The idiom lo hish’ir kol neshamah {לֹא־הִשְׁאִיר כָּל־נְשָׁמָה | lōʾ-hiššîʾîr-kāl-nᵊšāmāh} intensifies completeness by negating any surviving soul.

In context — 1 Kings 15:29

As soon as he began to reign, he struck down all the house of Jeroboam; he left Jeroboam no one who breathed until he had destroyed it according to the word of the LORD spoken by the hand of His servant Ahijah the Shilonite.

About this coordinate

1 Kings 15:29:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of 1 Kings 15:29, so the Hebrew word לֹֽא־הִשְׁאִ֧יר (lohisheir) 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.15.29.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.15.29.W6.S1) and character.

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