1 Samuel 18:1:71 Sam.18.1.W7TAB
נִקְשְׁרָ֖ה
nikshera
“was bound”
- Transliteration
- nik-she-RA
- Extended
- nihk-sheh-RAA
- IPA
- /niq.ʃəˈraː/
Meaning by language
- English
- was bound
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Nun | n as in new | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
Tap any letter to hear its name and sound
Now you try — trace the word:
The word
Word in context
- word
nik-she-RA
- clause
va-ye-HI ke-khal-lo-TO le-dab-BER el-sha-UL ve-NE-fesh ye-ho-na-TAN nik-she-RA be-NE-fesh da-VID
- sentence
va-ye-HI ke-khal-lo-TO le-dab-BER el-sha-UL ve-NE-fesh ye-ho-na-TAN nik-she-RA be-NE-fesh da-VID vi-a-ha-VU va-ye-e-ha-VE-hu ye-ho-na-TAN ke-naf-SHO
Exegesis
The passive Niphal perfect niksherah {נִקְשְׁרָה | nĭqšär-āh} ‘was bound’ conveys a deep, mutual connection, directed toward David by the prepositional phrase benefesh David {בְּנֶפֶשׁ דָּוִד | bə-ne-p̄eš Dä-wîḏ} ‘in the soul of David’.
Root and etymology
ק־שׁ־ר
“to bind, tie”
In context — 1 Samuel 18:1
And it happened that when he finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was bound to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul .
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 18:1:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of 1 Samuel 18:1, so the Hebrew word נִקְשְׁרָ֖ה (nikshera) 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.18.1.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.18.1.W7.S1) and character.