1 Samuel 18:29:31 Sam.18.29.W3TAB
לֵרֹ֛א
lero
“to fear”
- Transliteration
- le-RO
- Extended
- lee-ROH
- IPA
- /leːˈrɔː/
Meaning by language
- English
- to fear
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
le-RO
- clause
va-yo-SEF sha-UL le-RO mi-pe-NE da-VID OD
- sentence
va-yo-SEF sha-UL le-RO mi-pe-NE da-VID OD va-ye-HI sha-UL o-YEV et-da-VID kol-ha-ya-MIM
Exegesis
It takes the prepositional infinitive lero {לֵרֹ֛א | lə-rō-ʼ} ‘to fear’ as its complement.
In context — 1 Samuel 18:29
Saul continued to fear David, and he remained David’s enemy all the days.
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 18:29:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of 1 Samuel 18:29, so the Hebrew word לֵרֹ֛א (lero) 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.18.29.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.18.29.W3.S1) and character.