1 Kings 18:40:151 Kgs.18.40.W15TAB
וַיִּשְׁחָטֵ֖ם
vayishkhatem
“and he slaughtered them”
- Transliteration
- va-yish-kha-TEM
- Extended
- vah-yihsh-khah-TEEM
- IPA
- /vaj.jiʃ.ħaːˈt̪eːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- and he slaughtered them
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
va-yish-kha-TEM
- clause
va-yo-ri-DEM e-li-YA-hu el-NA-khal ki-SHON va-yish-kha-TEM SHAM
- sentence
va-YO-mer e-li-YA-hu la-HEM tif-SU et-ne-vi-E ha-BA-al ISH al-yim-ma-LET me-HEM va-yit-pe-SUM va-yo-ri-DEM e-li-YA-hu el-NA-khal ki-SHON va-yish-kha-TEM SHAM
Exegesis
The directional phrase el-nachal Kishon {אֶל־נַ֣חַל קִישׁ֔וֹן | ʾel-na-ḥāl qî-šôn} specifies the brook, and the final vayishchatem {וַיִּשְׁחָטֵ֖ם | va-yish-ḥā-ṭēm} ‘and he slaughtered them’ conveys a judicial execution at that location.
Root and etymology
š-ḥ-ṭšin-ḥet-tet
“to slaughter”
In context — 1 Kings 18:40
And Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal; let not a man escape from them.” They seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Kishon Brook and slaughtered them there.
About this coordinate
1 Kings 18:40:15 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 15 of 1 Kings 18:40, so the Hebrew word וַיִּשְׁחָטֵ֖ם (vayishkhatem) 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.18.40.W15, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.18.40.W15.S1) and character.