1 Samuel 17:26:71 Sam.17.26.W7TAB
מַה־יֵּעָשֶׂ֗ה
mayease
“what will be done”
- Transliteration
- ma-ye-a-SE
- Extended
- mah-yeh-ah-SEH
- IPA
- /mah.jeː.ʕaːˈsɛː/
Meaning by language
- English
- what will be done
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
ma-ye-a-SE
- clause
va-YO-mer da-VID el-ha-a-na-SHIM ha-o-me-DIM i-MO le-MOR ma-ye-a-SE la-ISH a-SHER ya-KE et-ha-pe-lish-TI ha-LAZ ve-he-SIR kher-PA me-AL yis-ra-EL
- sentence
va-YO-mer da-VID el-ha-a-na-SHIM ha-o-me-DIM i-MO le-MOR ma-ye-a-SE la-ISH a-SHER ya-KE et-ha-pe-lish-TI ha-LAZ ve-he-SIR kher-PA me-AL yis-ra-EL KI MI ha-pe-lish-TI he-a-REL ha-ZE KI khe-REF ma-ar-KHOT e-lo-HIM kha-YIM
Exegesis
The interrogative mah-yeaseh {מַה־יֵּעָשֶׂה | māh yē-‘ā-seh} ‘what will be done’ opens a question of reward, and the relative clause asher yă-keh et ha-plishti ha-laz {אֲשֶׁר יַכֶּה אֶת־הַפְּלִשְׁתִּי הַלָּז | ’ă-šer yă-keh ’et happə-lîš-tî halāz} ‘who strikes this Philistine’ identifies the deliverer.
In context — 1 Samuel 17:26
And David said to the men standing with him, “What will be done for the man who strikes down this Philistine and removes disgrace from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should taunt the battle lines of the living God ?”
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 17:26:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of 1 Samuel 17:26, so the Hebrew word מַה־יֵּעָשֶׂ֗ה (mayease) 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.17.26.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.17.26.W7.S1) and character.