1 Samuel 17:33:91 Sam.17.33.W9TAB
לְהִלָּחֵ֖ם
lehillakhem
“to fight”
- Transliteration
- le-hil-la-KHEM
- Extended
- leh-hihl-lah-KHEEM
- IPA
- /ləhil.laˈχeːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- to fight
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
le-hil-la-KHEM
- clause
va-yo-MER sha-UL el-da-VID LO tu-KHAL la-LE-khet el-ha-pe-lish-TI ha-ZE le-hil-la-KHEM im-MO
- sentence
va-yo-MER sha-UL el-da-VID LO tu-KHAL la-LE-khet el-ha-pe-lish-TI ha-ZE le-hil-la-KHEM im-MO ki-NA-ar a-TA ve-HU ISH mil-kha-MA min-ne-u-RAIV
Exegesis
The Niphal infinitive lehilachem {לְהִלָּחֵם | lə-hil-lā-ḥēm} with the prepositional object immo {עִמּוֹ | ’im-mô} forms a complementary infinitive of opposition.
Root and etymology
l-ḥ-m
“bread, food”
In context — 1 Samuel 17:33
And Saul said to David, “You are not able to go to this Philistine to fight him, for you are a youth , and he has been a man of war from his youth.”
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 17:33:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of 1 Samuel 17:33, so the Hebrew word לְהִלָּחֵ֖ם (lehillakhem) 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.17.33.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.17.33.W9.S1) and character.