1 Kings 20:8:31 Kgs.20.8.W3TAB
כָּל־הַזְּקֵנִ֖ים
kolhazekenim
“all of the elders”
- Transliteration
- kol-ha-ze-ke-NIM
- Extended
- kohl-hah-zeh-keh-NEEM
- IPA
- /kɔl.haz.zəqeːˈniːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- all of the elders
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Zayin | z as in zero | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Nun | n as in new | |
| 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
kol-ha-ze-ke-NIM
- clause
va-yo-me-RU e-LAV kol-ha-ze-ke-NIM ve-khol-ha-AM
- sentence
va-yo-me-RU e-LAV kol-ha-ze-ke-NIM ve-khol-ha-AM al-tish-me-A ve-LO to-VE
Exegesis
The paired phrases kol-ha-zəqēnîm {כָּל־הַזְּקֵנִים | kol-ha-zəqēnîm} ‘all the elders’ and wə-kol-hā-ʿām {וְכָל־הָעָם | wə-kol-hā-ʿām} ‘and all the people’ form a distributive parallelism emphasizing communal unanimity.
Root and etymology
z-q-n
“to be old, elder”
In context — 1 Kings 20:8
And all the elders and all the people said to him, “Do not listen , and do not consent.”
About this coordinate
1 Kings 20:8:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of 1 Kings 20:8, so the Hebrew word כָּל־הַזְּקֵנִ֖ים (kolhazekenim) 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.20.8.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.20.8.W3.S1) and character.