כִּֽי־שֹׁמְרִ֣ים

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 כִּֽי־שֹׁמְרִ֣ים

   KI-sho-me-RIM

   for keeping, or guarding
2. phraseyour reading level🔊 כִּֽי־שֹׁמְרִ֣ים אֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙

   KI-sho-me-RIM a-NAKH-nu

   for keeping, or guarding we
3. sentence🔊 וּמַקְטִרִ֣ים לַיהוָ֡ה עֹל֣וֹת בַּבֹּ֣קֶר־בַּבֹּ֔קֶר וּבָעֶ֥רֶב־בָּעֶ֖רֶב וּקְטֹ֥רֶת־סַמִּ֖ים וּמַעֲרֶ֨כֶת לֶ֜חֶם עַל־הַשֻּׁלְחָ֣ן הַטָּה֗וֹר וּמְנוֹרַ֨ת הַזָּהָ֜ב וְנֵרֹתֶ֣יהָ֙ לְבָעֵ֣ר בָּעֶ֔רֶב בָּעֶ֖רֶב כִּֽי־שֹׁמְרִ֣ים אֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙ אֶת־מִשְׁמֶ֣רֶת יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֣ינוּ וְאַתֶּ֖ם עֲזַבְתֶּ֥ם אֹת֖וֹ׃

   u-mak-ti-RIM la-ye-ho-VAH o-LOT ba-BO-ker-ba-BO-ker u-va-E-rev-ba-E-rev u-ke-TO-ret-sam-MIM u-ma-a-RE-khet LE-khem al-ha-shul-KHAN ha-ta-HOR u-me-no-RAT ha-za-HAV ve-ne-ro-TE-ha le-va-ER ba-E-rev ba-E-rev KI-sho-me-RIM a-NAKH-nu ET-mish-me-RET ye-ho-VAH e-lo-HE-nu ve-a-TEM a-zav-TEM o-TO

   and making smoke, or offering incense to the LORD burnt offerings in the morning, in the morning and in the evening, evening and incense of spices and arranging bread on the table the pure and the lampstand of the gold and its lamps to burn in the evening in the evening for keeping, or guarding we {the marker of the direct object} the charge, or duty of the LORD our God but you you have forsaken him

Exegesis

The clause ki-shomrim anachnu {כִּי־שֹׁמְרִים אֲנַחְנוּ | kî-šō-mə-rîm ʾă-naḥ-nû} fronts the participle “keeping,” giving prominence to ongoing fidelity before stating the subject “we.”