2 Chronicles 16:12:42 Chr.16.12.W4TAB
שְׁלוֹשִׁ֨ים
sheloshim
“thirty”
- Transliteration
- she-lo-SHIM
- Extended
- sheh-loh-SHEEM
- IPA
- /ʃəloˈʃiːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- thirty
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| 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
she-lo-SHIM
- phraseyour reading level
bish-NA-t she-lo-SHIM va-TE-sha le-mal-khu-TO
- clause
va-ye-khe-LE a-SA bish-NA-t she-lo-SHIM va-TE-sha le-mal-khu-TO be-rag-LA-v ad-le-ma-a-LA khal-YO
- sentence
va-ye-khe-LE a-SA bish-NA-t she-lo-SHIM va-TE-sha le-mal-khu-TO be-rag-LA-v ad-le-ma-a-LA khal-YO ve-gam-be-khal-YO lo-da-RASH et-ye-ho-VAH KI ba-ro-fe-IM
Exegesis
The temporal construct bishnat šəlōšîm wāṯēšaʿ lə-malḵûtō {בִּשְׁנַת שְׁלוֹשִׁים וָתֵשַׁע לְמַלְכוּתוֹ | bišnāt šəlōšîm wāṯēšaʿ lə-malḵûtō} ‘in the thirty-ninth year of his reign’ establishes the chronological frame.
In context — 2 Chronicles 16:12
And Asa became ill in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, his sickness was in his feet until it reached a critical severity. Even in his illness he did not seek the LORD , but only consulted the physicians .
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 16:12:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of 2 Chronicles 16:12, so the Hebrew word שְׁלוֹשִׁ֨ים (sheloshim) 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.16.12.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.16.12.W4.S1) and character.