1 Samuel 21:3:41 Sam.21.3.W4TABWLC 1 Samuel 21:4
חֲמִשָּׁ֥ה־לֶ֖חֶם
khamishalekhem
“five bread loaves”
- Transliteration
- kha-mi-SHA-le-khem
- Extended
- khah-mih-SHAH-leh-khem
- IPA
- /ħămiʃˈʃɔː.lɛħɛm/
Meaning by language
- English
- five bread loaves
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
kha-mi-SHA-le-khem
- sentence
ve-a-TA ma-YESH TA-khat-ya-DE-kha kha-mi-SHA-le-khem te-NA be-ya-DI O ha-nim-TSA
Exegesis
The Qal imperative ten-li {תֵּן־לִּי | tê-n lî} ‘give to me’ introduces the direct request, with chalavot {חַלָּבוֹת | ḥă-lā-ḇōṯ} ‘loaves’ quantified by the cardinal number chamishah {חֲמִשָּׁה | ḥă-mî-šāh}.
Root and etymology
ל־חׄ־מ
“bread, food”
In context — 1 Samuel 21:3
Then David said to the priest, “Now therefore, what is under your hand ? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever there is.”
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 21:3:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of 1 Samuel 21:3, so the Hebrew word חֲמִשָּׁ֥ה־לֶ֖חֶם (khamishalekhem) 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.21.3.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.21.3.W4.S1) and character.