1 Kings 20:30:71 Kgs.20.30.W7TAB
עַל־עֶשְׂרִ֨ים
alesherim
“upon twenty”
- Transliteration
- al-e-she-RIM
- Extended
- ahl-eh-sheh-REEM
- IPA
- /ʕal.ʕɛsˈriːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- upon twenty
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
al-e-she-RIM
- phraseyour reading level
al-e-she-RIM ve-shiv-A E-lef
- clause
va-ya-NU-su ha-no-ta-RIM a-fe-KA el-ha-IR va-ti-POL ha-kho-MA al-e-she-RIM ve-shiv-A E-lef ISH ha-no-ta-RIM
- sentence
va-ya-NU-su ha-no-ta-RIM a-fe-KA el-ha-IR va-ti-POL ha-kho-MA al-e-she-RIM ve-shiv-A E-lef ISH ha-no-ta-RIM u-ven-ha-DAD NAS va-ya-BO el-ha-IR KHE-der be-kha-DER
Exegesis
The numeric construct al-esrim veshivah elef {עַל־עֶשְׂרִ֨ים וְשִׁבְעָ֥ה אֶלֶף | ʿal-ʿeśrîm wə-šīḇāʿâ ʾelep̄} ‘upon twenty and seven thousand’ follows standard Hebrew number sequence with tens before units.
Root and etymology
שׂ־ר־ר
“prince, commander”
In context — 1 Kings 20:30
And the remaining fled to Aphek, to the city. Then the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of those who remained. Ben-Hadad fled into the city and entered an inner room .
About this coordinate
1 Kings 20:30:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of 1 Kings 20:30, so the Hebrew word עַל־עֶשְׂרִ֨ים (alesherim) 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.20.30.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.20.30.W7.S1) and character.