2 Chronicles 23:16:102 Chr.23.16.W10TAB
לְעָ֖ם
leam
“as a people”
- Transliteration
- le-AM
- Extended
- leh-AAM
- IPA
- /ləˈʕɑːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- as a people
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Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
le-AM
- phraseyour reading level
lih-ye-HOT le-AM
- clause
lih-ye-HOT le-AM la-ye-ho-VAH
- sentence
va-yik-ROT ye-ho-ya-DA be-RIT be-NO u-VEIN KAL-ha-AM u-VEIN ha-ME-lekh lih-ye-HOT le-AM la-ye-ho-VAH
Exegesis
The infinitive construct li-hyōt {לִהְיוֹת | li-hyōt} expresses purpose, governing the clause lə-‘ām la-YHWH {לְעָם לַיהוָה | lə-‘ām la-YHWH} ‘to be a people for the LORD’. The Hebrew parallelism of repeated prepositional clauses and the successive “to-be … for” structure is rendered in English to reflect the covenant’s collective intent.
Root and etymology
ʻ-m-mayin–mem–mem
“people, nation”
In context — 2 Chronicles 23:16
Then Jehoiada established a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they would be a people for the LORD .
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 23:16:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of 2 Chronicles 23:16, so the Hebrew word לְעָ֖ם (leam) 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.23.16.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.23.16.W10.S1) and character.