2 Chronicles 13:21:82 Chr.13.21.W8TAB
עֶשְׂרִ֤ים
eserim
“twenty”
- Transliteration
- e-se-RIM
- Extended
- eh-seh-REEM
- IPA
- /ʕɛs.riːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- twenty
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
e-se-RIM
- phraseyour reading level
e-se-RIM u-she-NA-yim
- clause
va-yo-LED e-se-RIM u-she-NA-yim ba-NIM ve-SHESH e-se-RE ba-NOT
- sentence
va-yit-kha-ZEK a-vi-YA-hu va-yi-SA-lo na-SHIM ar-BA e-se-RE va-yo-LED e-se-RIM u-she-NA-yim ba-NIM ve-SHESH e-se-RE ba-NOT
Exegesis
Numerals appear in construct or coordinate structures: arba-esreh {אַרְבַּע־עֶשְׂרֵה | ar-ba-ʿe-se-rē} ‘fourteen’ bound by maqef, esrim ushnayim {עֶשְׂרִים וּשְׁנַיִם | ʿeś-rîm ū-šə-na-yim} ‘twenty and two’, ushesh esreh {וּשֵׁשׁ עֶשְׂרֵה | ū-šēš ʿe-se-rē} ‘sixteen’.
In context — 2 Chronicles 13:21
But Abijah strengthened himself, and he took fourteen wives for himself and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters .
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 13:21:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of 2 Chronicles 13:21, so the Hebrew word עֶשְׂרִ֤ים (eserim) 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.13.21.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.13.21.W8.S1) and character.