1 Samuel 21:11:51 Sam.21.11.W5TABWLC 1 Samuel 21:12
הֲלֹא־זֶ֤ה
haloze
“is not this”
- Transliteration
- ha-LO-ze
- Extended
- hah-LOH-zeh
- IPA
- /hăˈloː.zɛ/
Meaning by language
- English
- is not this
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Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Zayin | z as in zero | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
ha-LO-ze
- phraseyour reading level
ha-LO-ze da-VID
- sentence
va-YO-meru a-ve-DE a-KHISH e-LAV ha-LO-ze da-VID ME-lekh ha-A-rets ha-LO la-ZE ya-a-NU bam-me-kho-LOT le-MOR hi-KA sha-UL ba-a-la-FAV ve-da-VID be-riv-ve-TAIV
Exegesis
The second interrogative hallōʾ zeh hazzāmer bemakhālōṯāyw {הֲלוֹא זֶה הַזַּמֵּר בְּמַחֲלוֹתָיו | hallōʾ zeh hazzāmer bemakhālōṯāyw} ‘Is he not this singer in his dances?’ uses the participle hazzāmer to recall the communal singing refrains, modified by the prepositional phrase bemakhālōṯāyw.
In context — 1 Samuel 21:11
And the servants of Achish said to him, “Is this David, the king of the land? Is he not the one of whom they sing to one another in dances, saying, ‘Saul has struck his thousands, and David his ten thousands’?”
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 21:11:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of 1 Samuel 21:11, so the Hebrew word הֲלֹא־זֶ֤ה (haloze) 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.21.11.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.21.11.W5.S1) and character.