2 Chronicles 25:12:112 Chr.25.12.W11TAB
מֵֽרֹאשׁ־הַסֶּ֖לַע
meroshhasela
“from the top of the crag”
- Transliteration
- me-ROSH-ha-SE-la
- Extended
- mee-ROHSH-hah-SEH-lah
- IPA
- /meːˈroːʃ.hasˈsɛlaʕ/
Meaning by language
- English
- from the top of the crag
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Samekh | s as in sit | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal |
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The word
Word in context
- word
me-ROSH-ha-SE-la
- phraseyour reading level
va-ya-shli-KHU-m me-ROSH-ha-SE-la
- clause
va-ya-shli-KHU-m me-ROSH-ha-SE-la ve-khu-LAM niv-ka-U
- sentence
va-a-SE-ret a-la-FIM kha-YIM sha-VU be-NEI ye-hu-DA va-ye-vi-U-m le-ROSH ha-sa-LA va-ya-shli-KHU-m me-ROSH-ha-SE-la ve-khu-LAM niv-ka-U
Exegesis
The movement is framed by matched spatial phrases: lerosh hasela {לְרֹ֣אשׁ הַסָּ֑לַע | lərōʾš hassālaʿ} ‘to the top of the cliff’ and merosh-hasela {מֵֽרֹאשׁ־הַסֶּ֖לַע | mērōʾš-hasselaʿ} ‘from the top of the cliff’, turning the cliff into both destination and instrument of death.
In context — 2 Chronicles 25:12
And the sons of Judah captured ten thousand alive and brought them to the top of the cliff, and they hurled them from the top of the cliff, and all of them were split open.
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 25:12:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of 2 Chronicles 25:12, so the Hebrew word מֵֽרֹאשׁ־הַסֶּ֖לַע (meroshhasela) 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.25.12.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.25.12.W11.S1) and character.