1 Kings 16:21:51 Kgs.16.21.W5TAB
לַחֵ֑צִי
lakhetsi
“into half”
- Transliteration
- la-KHE-tsi
- Extended
- lah-KHEH-tsih
- IPA
- /laħɛˈtsi/
Meaning by language
- English
- into half
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī |
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Word in context
- word
la-KHE-tsi
- clause
AZ ye-kha-LEK ha-AM yis-re-EL la-KHE-tsi
- sentence
AZ ye-kha-LEK ha-AM yis-re-EL la-KHE-tsi kha-TSI ha-AM ha-YA a-kha-RE tiv-NI ben-gi-NAT le-ham-li-KHO ve-ha-kha-TSI a-kha-RE om-RI
Exegesis
The paired phrase la-ḥē-ṣî ḥa-ṣî {לַחֵצִי חֲצִי | la-ḥē-ṣî ḥa-ṣî} ‘into half, half’ expresses partition, echoed by the construct ḥa-ṣî hā-ʿām {חֲצִי הָעָם | ḥa-ṣî hā-ʿā-m} ‘half the people’.
Root and etymology
Rootḥet–tsade–yod
“half”
In context — 1 Kings 16:21
Then the people of Israel were divided into two halves; half of the people was following Tibni son of Ginath, to make him king, and the other half was following Omri.
About this coordinate
1 Kings 16:21:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of 1 Kings 16:21, so the Hebrew word לַחֵ֑צִי (lakhetsi) 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.16.21.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.16.21.W5.S1) and character.