1 Kings 15:3:111 Kgs.15.3.W11TAB
כִּלְבַ֖ב
kilvav
“as the heart of”
- Transliteration
- kil-VAV
- Extended
- kihl-VAV
- IPA
- /kilˈvav/
Meaning by language
- English
- as the heart of
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Alphabet Analysis
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh |
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Word in context
- word
kil-VAV
- clause
ve-lo-ha-YA le-va-VO sha-LEM im-ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HAV kil-VAV da-VID a-VIV
- sentence
va-YE-lekh be-KHOL-kha-to-OT a-VIV a-sher-a-SA le-fa-NAV ve-lo-ha-YA le-va-VO sha-LEM im-ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HAV kil-VAV da-VID a-VIV
Exegesis
The comparative clause kî-lə-ḇab Dā-wîḏ ’ā-vîw {כִּלְבַ֖ב דָּוִ֥ד אָבִֽיו | kî-lə-ḇab Dā-wîḏ ’ā-vîw} ‘like the heart of David his father’ uses kî to present David’s unwavering loyalty as the normative paradigm. The English rendering preserves the sequential action and restructures the construct and comparative elements into idiomatic flow.
Root and etymology
lamed–bet–betlamed–bet–bet
“inner person, heart”
In context — 1 Kings 15:3
He kept to all the sins his father had practiced before him, and his heart was not whole with the LORD his God , unlike the heart of David his father.
About this coordinate
1 Kings 15:3:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of 1 Kings 15:3, so the Hebrew word כִּלְבַ֖ב (kilvav) 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.15.3.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.15.3.W11.S1) and character.