1 Samuel 22:23:91 Sam.22.23.W9TAB
כִּֽי־מִשְׁמֶ֥רֶת
kimishmeret
“for a guard or a protection”
- Transliteration
- ki-mish-me-RET
- Extended
- kee-mihsh-meh-REET
- IPA
- /kiː.miʃ.mɛˈrɛt/
Meaning by language
- English
- for a guard or a protection
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ki-mish-me-RET
- phraseyour reading level
ki-mish-me-RET a-TA
- clause
ki-mish-me-RET a-TA im-ma-DI
- sentence
she-VA i-TI al-ti-RA KI a-sher-ye-vak-KESH et-naf-SHI ye-vak-KESH et-naf-SHE-kha ki-mish-me-RET a-TA im-ma-DI
Exegesis
In the final clause, the compound ki-mishmeret {כִּי־מִשְׁמֶרֶת | kî-miš-me-reṯ} ‘for protection’ integrates causal nuance with mishmeret ‘safeguard’, followed by the pronoun attah {אַתָּה | ’ă-tāh} ‘you’ and the prepositional phrase imadi {עִמָּדִי | ʿim-mā-dî} ‘with me’, presenting proximity as the basis for security. In translation, these syntactic features were retained to preserve the cause-and-effect flow and the parallelism of threat and assurance.
Root and etymology
ש־מ־רshin–mem–resh
“to guard; watch”
In context — 1 Samuel 22:23
Stay with me; do not be afraid, for the one who seeks my soul is also seeking your soul. You will be under my safeguard .
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 22:23:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of 1 Samuel 22:23, so the Hebrew word כִּֽי־מִשְׁמֶ֥רֶת (kimishmeret) 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.22.23.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.22.23.W9.S1) and character.