1 Kings 18:43:31 Kgs.18.43.W3TAB
עֲלֵֽה־נָא֙
alena
“go up, please”
- Transliteration
- a-le-NA
- Extended
- ah-leh-NAA
- IPA
- /ʕăleːˈnaː/
Meaning by language
- English
- go up, please
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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Word in context
- word
a-le-NA
- clause
va-YO-mer el-na-a-RO a-le-NA ha-BET DE-rekh-YAM va-YA-al va-ya-BET va-YO-mer EN me-u-MA
- sentence
va-YO-mer el-na-a-RO a-le-NA ha-BET DE-rekh-YAM va-YA-al va-ya-BET va-YO-mer EN me-u-MA va-YO-mer SHUV SHE-va pe-a-MIM
Exegesis
Imperative verbs (’aleh-na {עֲלֵה־נָא | ’ă-lê-nā} ‘go up now’, habet {הַבֵּט | hab-bēṭ} ‘look’, shuv {שֻׁב | šûḇ} ‘return’) signal direct instruction.
Root and etymology
ע־ל־ה
“to ascend”
In context — 1 Kings 18:43
And he said to his servant , “Go up now, look toward the way of the sea.” So he went up and looked, and he said, “There is nothing at all.” And he said, “Go back seven times.”
About this coordinate
1 Kings 18:43:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of 1 Kings 18:43, so the Hebrew word עֲלֵֽה־נָא֙ (alena) 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.18.43.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.18.43.W3.S1) and character.