2 Chronicles 13:17:102 Chr.13.17.W10TAB
חֲמֵשׁ־מֵא֥וֹת
khameshmeot
“five hundred”
- Transliteration
- kha-MESH-me-OT
- Extended
- hah-MESH-meh-OHT
- IPA
- /ħaˈmeːʃ.meːˈʔoːt/
Meaning by language
- English
- five hundred
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 | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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The word
Word in context
- word
kha-MESH-me-OT
- phraseyour reading level
kha-MESH-me-OT E-lef
- clause
mak-KA rab-BA va-yip-LU kha-la-LIM mi-yis-ra-EL kha-MESH-me-OT E-lef ISH ba-KHUR
- sentence
va-yik-KU va-HEM a-vi-YA ve-am-MO mak-KA rab-BA va-yip-LU kha-la-LIM mi-yis-ra-EL kha-MESH-me-OT E-lef ISH ba-KHUR
Exegesis
The large figure is expressed with a Hebrew counting construction, chamesh-meot elef {חֲמֵשׁ־מֵא֥וֹת אֶ֛לֶף | ḥămēš-mēʾōṯ ʾelep̄} (‘five hundred thousand’), followed by ish bahurim {אִ֖ישׁ בָּחוּרִֽים | ʾîš bāḥûrîm}, a collective-plus-descriptor that presents the dead as able-bodied young men, underscoring the scale and severity of Israel’s defeat.
In context — 2 Chronicles 13:17
And Abijah and his people struck them with a great blow , and 500,000 young men from Israel fell slain.
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 13:17:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of 2 Chronicles 13:17, so the Hebrew word חֲמֵשׁ־מֵא֥וֹת (khameshmeot) 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 2 Chr.13.17.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.13.17.W10.S1) and character.