1 Kings 20:3:121 Kgs.20.3.W12TAB
לִי־הֵֽם׃
lihem
“are mine”
- Transliteration
- LI-HEM
- Extended
- LEE-HEEM
- IPA
- /liːˈheːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- are mine
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
LI-HEM
- clause
ve-na-SHE-kha u-va-NE-kha ha-to-VIM LI-HEM
- sentence
va-yo-MER LO KO a-MAR ben-ha-DAD kas-pe-KHA u-ze-hav-KHA LI-HU ve-na-SHE-kha u-va-NE-kha ha-to-VIM LI-HEM
Exegesis
The coordinated phrase wə-nāše-kā ū-ḇānê-kā ha-tō-vîm {וְנָשֶׁ֧יךָ וּבָנֶ֛יךָ הַטּוֹבִ֖ים | wə-nā-še-kā ū-ḇā-nê-kā ha-tō-vîm} ‘your best wives and sons’ uses the adjective ha-tō-vîm to denote select quality, and the final lî-hēm {לִי־הֵֽם | lî-hēm} ‘they are mine’ reasserts ownership.
In context — 1 Kings 20:3
And he said to him, “Thus says Ben-Hadad : ‘Your silver and your gold belong to me, and your best wives and sons are mine.’”
About this coordinate
1 Kings 20:3:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of 1 Kings 20:3, so the Hebrew word לִי־הֵֽם׃ (lihem) 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.20.3.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.20.3.W12.S1) and character.