2 Chronicles 13:9:142 Chr.13.9.W14TAB
לְמַלֵּ֨א
lemale
“to fill {the hand}, to be ordained”
- Transliteration
- le-ma-LE
- Extended
- leh-mah-LEE
- IPA
- /ləmalˈleː/
Meaning by language
- English
- to fill {the hand}, to be ordained
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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Word in context
- word
le-ma-LE
- phraseyour reading level
le-ma-LE ya-DO
- clause
va-ta-a-SU la-KHEM ko-ha-NIM ke-a-ME ha-a-ra-TSOT kol-ha-BA le-ma-LE ya-DO be-FAR ben-ba-KAR ve-EI-lim shiv-A ve-ha-YA ko-HEN le-LO e-lo-HIM
- sentence
ha-LO hi-dakh-TEM et-KO-ha-NE ye-ho-VAH et-be-NE a-ha-RON ve-hal-vi-YIM va-ta-a-SU la-KHEM ko-ha-NIM ke-a-ME ha-a-ra-TSOT kol-ha-BA le-ma-LE ya-DO be-FAR ben-ba-KAR ve-EI-lim shiv-A ve-ha-YA ko-HEN le-LO e-lo-HIM
Exegesis
Eligibility is broadened with kol-haba {כָּל־הַבָּ֣א | kol-habbāʾ} ‘everyone who comes’, and the idiom lemale yado {לְמַלֵּ֣א יָד֔וֹ | ləmallēʾ yādô} ‘to fill his hand’ signals priestly installation.
Root and etymology
m-l-ʾmem–lamed–aleph
“fill”
In context — 2 Chronicles 13:9
Is it not so that you drove away the priests of the LORD —the sons of Aaron and the Levites—and made priests for yourselves like the peoples of the lands? Everyone who comes to consecrate his hand with a young bull and seven rams becomes a priest for what are not gods.
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 13:9:14 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 14 of 2 Chronicles 13:9, so the Hebrew word לְמַלֵּ֨א (lemale) 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.13.9.W14, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.13.9.W14.S1) and character.