1 Samuel 20:4:61 Sam.20.4.W6TAB
וְאֶֽעֱשֶׂה־לָּ֥ךְ׃
veeeselakh
“and I will do for you”
- Transliteration
- ve-E-e-se-LAKH
- Extended
- veh-EH-eh-seh-LAAKH
- IPA
- /vəʔɛʕɛˈsɛːl.laːx/
Meaning by language
- English
- and I will do for you
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Hateph Seghol | reduced 'eh' | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-E-e-se-LAKH
- clause
ma-to-MAR naf-she-KHA ve-E-e-se-LAKH
- sentence
va-YO-mer ye-ho-NA-tan el-da-VID ma-to-MAR naf-she-KHA ve-E-e-se-LAKH
Exegesis
The prepositional phrase lekha {לְךָ | lə-ḵā} ‘for you’ personalizes the request.
Jonathan’s shift to first-person anokhi {אָנֹכִי | ʾā-nō-kî} ‘I’ and the imperfect eeseh {אֶעֱשֶׂה | ʾě-ʿe-seh} ‘I will do’ expresses his committed promise. The Hebrew VSO word order yields a concise question-promise structure that the English renders in two balanced clauses.
Root and etymology
ʿ-š-hayin–shin–heh
“to do, make”
In context — 1 Samuel 20:4
And Jonathan said to David, “What do you desire? I will do for you.”
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 20:4:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of 1 Samuel 20:4, so the Hebrew word וְאֶֽעֱשֶׂה־לָּ֥ךְ׃ (veeeselakh) 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.20.4.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.20.4.W6.S1) and character.