2 Chronicles 20:18:42 Chr.20.18.W4TAB
אָ֑רְצָה
artse
“to the ground”
- Transliteration
- AR-tse
- Extended
- AAR-tseh
- IPA
- /ˈʔaːr.tsɔː/
Meaning by language
- English
- to the ground
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
AR-tse
- clause
va-yik-KOD ye-ho-sha-FAT a-PA-yim AR-tse
- sentence
va-yik-KOD ye-ho-sha-FAT a-PA-yim AR-tse ve-khol-ye-hu-DA ve-yosh-VE ye-ru-sha-LA-yim na-fe-LU lif-NE ye-ho-VAH le-hish-ta-kha-VOT la-ye-ho-VAH
Exegesis
The object appayim {אַפַּ֖יִם | appāyim} ‘faces’, in the dual form, emphasizes full prostration toward the earth (artzah {אָרְצָה | ʼārṣâ}). The coordinated subjects wekol Yehudah weyoshvei Yerushalayim ‘all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem’ signal communal participation.
In context — 2 Chronicles 20:18
And Jehoshaphat bowed down with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD to worship Him.
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 20:18:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of 2 Chronicles 20:18, so the Hebrew word אָ֑רְצָה (artse) 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.20.18.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.20.18.W4.S1) and character.