2 Chronicles 20:24:32 Chr.20.24.W3TAB
עַל־הַמִּצְפֶּ֖ה
alhamitspe
“to the lookout, watchtower”
- Transliteration
- al-ha-mits-PE
- Extended
- ahl-hah-mihts-PEH
- IPA
- /ʕal.ham.mitsˈpɛː/
Meaning by language
- English
- to the lookout, watchtower
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
al-ha-mits-PE
- phraseyour reading level
BA al-ha-mits-PE
- clause
vi-ye-hu-DA BA al-ha-mits-PE lam-mid-BAR
- sentence
vi-ye-hu-DA BA al-ha-mits-PE lam-mid-BAR va-yif-NU el-he-ha-MON ve-hin-NAM pe-ga-RIM no-fe-LIM AR-tsa ve-EN pe-lei-TA
Exegesis
The compound prepositional phrase al-hamitzpeh la-midbar {עַל־הַמִּצְפֶּ֖ה לַמִּדְבָּ֑ר | ʿal hammîṣpēh lammidbār} precisely locates the vantage point “upon the lookout to the wilderness.”
Root and etymology
Rootʿ-l-h
“to go up, bring up”
In context — 2 Chronicles 20:24
And Judah came to the watchtower overlooking the wilderness, and they turned toward the multitude, and behold, they were corpses lying on the ground; and there was no survivor .
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 20:24:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of 2 Chronicles 20:24, so the Hebrew word עַל־הַמִּצְפֶּ֖ה (alhamitspe) 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.20.24.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.20.24.W3.S1) and character.