2 Chronicles 23:17:72 Chr.23.17.W7TAB
שִׁבֵּ֑רוּ
shiberu
“they smashed or broke in pieces”
- Transliteration
- shi-BE-ru
- Extended
- shih-BEH-roo
- IPA
- /ʃibˈbeː.ruː/
Meaning by language
- English
- they smashed or broke in pieces
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
shi-BE-ru
- clause
va-ya-VO-u khol-ha-AM bet-ha-AL va-yit-tse-TU-hu ve-ET-miz-be-kho-TAI-v ve-ET-tse-la-MAI-v shi-BE-ru
- sentence
va-ya-VO-u khol-ha-AM bet-ha-AL va-yit-tse-TU-hu ve-ET-miz-be-kho-TAI-v ve-ET-tse-la-MAI-v shi-BE-ru ve-ET ma-TAN ko-HEN ha-AL hor-GU lif-NE ham-miz-be-KHOT
Exegesis
The verse features a sequence of vav-consecutive verbs—vayavo’u {וַיָּבֹאוּ | vā-ya-wō-’ū} “they came,” vayyittetzuhu {וַיִּתְּצֻהוּ | vā-yit-te-ṣū-hū} “they demolished it,” shiberu {שִׁבֵּרוּ | šiḇ-ḇê-rû} “they broke,” and hargu {הָרְגוּ | hā-rə-gū} “they killed”—which drives rapid action and communal zeal.
In context — 2 Chronicles 23:17
All the people went to the house of Baal and tore it down; they smashed his altars and his images , and they killed Mattan, the priest of Baal, in front of the altars.
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 23:17:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of 2 Chronicles 23:17, so the Hebrew word שִׁבֵּ֑רוּ (shiberu) 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.23.17.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.23.17.W7.S1) and character.