1 Samuel 17:44:81 Sam.17.44.W8TAB
לְע֥וֹף
leof
“to the bird of”
- Transliteration
- le-OF
- Extended
- leh-OHF
- IPA
- /ləˈʕoːf/
Meaning by language
- English
- to the bird of
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Pe Sofit | final form of Pe — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
le-OF
- phraseyour reading level
le-OF ha-sha-MA-yim
- clause
le-KHA e-LAI ve-et-te-NA et-be-sa-re-KHA le-OF ha-sha-MA-yim u-le-ve-he-MAT ha-sa-DE
- sentence
va-YO-mer ha-pe-lish-TI el-da-VID le-KHA e-LAI ve-et-te-NA et-be-sa-re-KHA le-OF ha-sha-MA-yim u-le-ve-he-MAT ha-sa-DE
Exegesis
The direct object marker et {אֶת | ʾeṯ} introduces besarkha {בְּשָׂרְךָ | bə-śār-ḵā} ‘your flesh’, which is allocated to two parallel objects: leof hashamayim {לְעוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם | lə-ʿôp̄ ha-šā-ma-yim} ‘to the bird of the heavens’ and ulevehemat hasadeh {וּלְבֶהֱמַת הַשָּׂדֶה | u-lə-vhe-hə-māṯ ha-ṣā-dê} ‘and to the beast of the field’. This chiastic parallelism intensifies the threat, and both English reconstructions preserve the coordinated structure while applying stylistic variation.
In context — 1 Samuel 17:44
And the Philistine said to David, “Draw near to me, and I will consign your flesh to the carrion birds of the sky and to the wild beasts of the field.”
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 17:44:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of 1 Samuel 17:44, so the Hebrew word לְע֥וֹף (leof) 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.17.44.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.17.44.W8.S1) and character.