1 Kings 18:11:31 Kgs.18.11.W3TAB
אֹמֵ֑ר
omer
“are saying”
- Transliteration
- o-MER
- Extended
- oh-MEHR
- IPA
- /ʔoːˈmeːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- are saying
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
o-MER
- phraseyour reading level
a-TA o-MER
- clause
ve-a-TA a-TA o-MER
- sentence
ve-a-TA a-TA o-MER LEKH e-MOR la-do-NE-kha hi-NE e-li-YA-hu
Exegesis
The explicit subject atta {אַתָּה | ʾat-tāh} heightens the confrontational focus (“you”) before the participle omer {אֹמֵר | ʾō-mēr} ‘are saying’, which presents the command as the other party’s current insistence.
Two successive imperatives, lekh emor {לֵךְ אֱמֹר | lēkh ʾĕmōr} ‘go, say’, function as a tight commissioning formula: movement followed by reporting, conveying urgency without extra modifiers.
Root and etymology
consonantsaleph–mem–resh
“to say”
In context — 1 Kings 18:11
And now you are saying, “Go, say to your master , ‘Look , Elijah is here!’”
About this coordinate
1 Kings 18:11:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of 1 Kings 18:11, so the Hebrew word אֹמֵ֑ר (omer) 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.18.11.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.18.11.W3.S1) and character.