2 Chronicles 2:17:202 Chr.2.17.W20TABWLC 2 Chronicles 2:16
וְשֵׁ֥שׁ
veshesh
“and six”
- Transliteration
- ve-SHESH
- Extended
- veh-SHEESH
- IPA
- /vəˈʃeːʃ/
Meaning by language
- English
- and six
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-SHESH
- phraseyour reading level
ve-SHESH me-OT
- clause
va-yim-ma-TSE-u me-AT va-kha-mish-SIM E-lef u-she-LO-shet a-la-FIM ve-SHESH me-OT
- sentence
va-yis-POR she-lo-MO KAL-ha-a-na-SHIM ha-ge-RIM a-SHER be-E-rets yis-ra-EL a-kha-RE has-se-FAR a-SHER se-fa-RAM da-VID a-VIV va-yim-ma-TSE-u me-AT va-kha-mish-SIM E-lef u-she-LO-shet a-la-FIM ve-SHESH me-OT
In context — 2 Chronicles 2:17
And Solomon counted all the men, the foreigners who were in the land of Israel after the census which his father David had conducted, and they were found to be 153,600.
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 2:17:20 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 20 of 2 Chronicles 2:17, so the Hebrew word וְשֵׁ֥שׁ (veshesh) 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.2.17.W20, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.2.17.W20.S1) and character.