1 Kings 18:44:41 Kgs.18.44.W4TAB
הִנֵּה־עָ֛ב
hinneav
“look, a cloud”
- Transliteration
- hin-NE-AV
- Extended
- hin-NEH-aav
- IPA
- /hinˈneː.ʕaːv/
Meaning by language
- English
- look, a cloud
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh |
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Word in context
- word
hin-NE-AV
- clause
va-ye-HI ba-she-vi-IT va-yo-MER hin-NE-AV ke-tan-NA ke-KAF-ISH O-LA mi-YAM
- sentence
va-ye-HI ba-she-vi-IT va-yo-MER hin-NE-AV ke-tan-NA ke-KAF-ISH O-LA mi-YAM va-yo-MER a-LE e-MOR el-akh-AV e-SOR va-RED ve-LO ya-tsar-KHA ha-GE-shem
Exegesis
The demonstrative compound hinnēh-ʿāḇ {הִנֵּה־עָ֛ב | hinnēh-ʿāḇ} ‘behold a cloud’ directs focus to observation, and the simile kə-kap̄-ʾîš {כְּכַף־אִ֖ישׁ | kə-kap̄-ʾîš} ‘like the palm of a man’ vividly conveys its size.
Root and etymology
ה־נ־ה
“behold, see”
In context — 1 Kings 18:44
And it happened at the seventh that he said, “Behold, a small cloud like the palm of a man is rising from the sea.” And he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Hitch your chariot and go down, so that the rain does not stop you.’”
About this coordinate
1 Kings 18:44:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of 1 Kings 18:44, so the Hebrew word הִנֵּה־עָ֛ב (hinneav) 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.18.44.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.18.44.W4.S1) and character.