1 Kings 16:10:61 Kgs.16.10.W6TAB
עֶשְׂרִ֣ים
eserim
“twenty”
- Transliteration
- e-se-RIM
- Extended
- eh-seh-REEM
- IPA
- /ʕɛsˈriːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- twenty
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
e-se-RIM
- phraseyour reading level
e-se-RIM va-SHE-va
- clause
va-ya-VO zim-RI va-yak-KE-hu va-ye-mi-TE-hu bish-naat e-se-RIM va-SHE-va le-a-SA ME-lekh ye-hu-DA
- sentence
va-ya-VO zim-RI va-yak-KE-hu va-ye-mi-TE-hu bish-naat e-se-RIM va-SHE-va le-a-SA ME-lekh ye-hu-DA va-yim-LOKH takh-TAI-v
Exegesis
This is followed by the construct chain bishnat {בִּשְׁנַת | bišnāt} ‘in the year of’ with the numeric phrase esrim vasheva {עֶשְׂרִים וָשֶׁבַע | ʿeśrîm wāšeḇaʿ} ‘twenty and seven’, anchoring the event in Asa’s rule.
Root and etymology
ʿayin–shin–resh
“ten”
In context — 1 Kings 16:10
Zimri entered, struck him down , and killed him in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah; then he reigned in his place.
About this coordinate
1 Kings 16:10:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of 1 Kings 16:10, so the Hebrew word עֶשְׂרִ֣ים (eserim) 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.16.10.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.16.10.W6.S1) and character.