1 Kings 20:23:121 Kgs.20.23.W12TAB
נִלָּחֵ֤ם
nillakhem
“let us fight”
- Transliteration
- nil-la-KHEM
- Extended
- nihl-laa-KHEEM
- IPA
- /nil.lɔːˈħeːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- let us fight
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| 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
nil-la-KHEM
- phraseyour reading level
nil-la-KHEM it-TAM
- clause
ve-u-LAM nil-la-KHEM it-TAM bam-mi-SHOR im-LO ne-khe-ZAK me-HEM
- sentence
ve-a-ve-DE ME-lekh-a-RAM am-RU e-LAV e-lo-HE ha-RIM e-lo-HE-hem al-KEN khaz-KU mim-ME-nu ve-u-LAM nil-la-KHEM it-TAM bam-mi-SHOR im-LO ne-khe-ZAK me-HEM
Exegesis
The adversative ve-ulam {וְאוּלָם | wə-ʾū-lām} ‘but’ introduces the cohortative nil-lakhem {נִלָּחֵם | nil-lā-ḥēm} ‘let us fight’, followed by the locative ba-mishor {בַּמִּישׁוֹר | ba-mī-šôr} ‘in the plain’ as the tactical setting.
Root and etymology
l-ḥ-m
“to fight”
In context — 1 Kings 20:23
And the servants of the king of Aram said to him, “Their gods are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we. But let us fight with them in the plain , and surely we will be stronger than they.”
About this coordinate
1 Kings 20:23:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of 1 Kings 20:23, so the Hebrew word נִלָּחֵ֤ם (nillakhem) 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.20.23.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.20.23.W12.S1) and character.