1 Samuel 15:2:81 Sam.15.2.W8TAB
עֲמָלֵ֖ק
amalek
“Amalek”
- Transliteration
- a-ma-LEK
- Extended
- ah-ma-LEHK
- IPA
- /ʕămaˈleːq/
Meaning by language
- English
- Amalek
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular |
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The word
Word in context
- word
a-ma-LEK
- phraseyour reading level
a-SHER-a-SA a-ma-LEK
- clause
KO a-MAR Ye-ho-VAH tse-va-OT pa-KAD-ti ET a-SHER-a-SA a-ma-LEK le-yis-ra-EL
- sentence
KO a-MAR Ye-ho-VAH tse-va-OT pa-KAD-ti ET a-SHER-a-SA a-ma-LEK le-yis-ra-EL a-SHER-SAM LO ba-DE-rekh ba-a-lo-TO mim-mits-ra-YIM
Root and etymology
עמ״לʿ-m-l
“toil, labor”
In context — 1 Samuel 15:2
Thus says the LORD of hosts : “I have appointed judgment for what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way as he came up from Egypt.”
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 15:2:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of 1 Samuel 15:2, so the Hebrew word עֲמָלֵ֖ק (amalek) 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 Sam.15.2.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.15.2.W8.S1) and character.