1 Kings 20:3:81 Kgs.20.3.W8TAB
לִֽי־ה֑וּא
lihu
“is mine”
- Transliteration
- LI-HU
- Extended
- LEE-HOO
- IPA
- /liːˈhuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- is 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 | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
LI-HU
- clause
va-yo-MER LO KO a-MAR ben-ha-DAD kas-pe-KHA u-ze-hav-KHA LI-HU
- 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
Possession is conveyed by the construct-state nouns kaspeḵā {כַּסְפְּךָ֥ | kas-pe-ḵā} ‘your silver’ and uzehāḇkā {וּֽזְהָבְךָ֖ | uz-hā-ḇā-ḵā} ‘your gold’, each marked with a second person singular suffix, plus the emphatic lî-hūʼ {לִֽי־ה֑וּא | lî-hūʼ} ‘it is mine’.
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 20:3:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of 1 Kings 20:3, so the Hebrew word לִֽי־ה֑וּא (lihu) 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.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.20.3.W8.S1) and character.