2 Chronicles 25:18:172 Chr.25.18.W17TAB
לְאִשָּׁ֑ה
leishsha
“as a wife”
- Transliteration
- le-ish-SHA
- Extended
- leh-ihsh-SHAA
- IPA
- /ləʔiʃˈʃɔː/
Meaning by language
- English
- as a wife
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Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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Word in context
- word
le-ish-SHA
- clause
va-yish-LAKH yo-ASH ME-lekh-yis-ra-EL el-a-mats-ya-HU ME-lekh-ye-hu-DA le-MOR ha-KHO-akh a-SHER bal-le-va-NON sha-LAKH el-ha-E-rez a-SHER bal-le-va-NON le-MOR te-NA-et-BIT-te-kha liv-NI le-ish-SHA
- sentence
va-yish-LAKH yo-ASH ME-lekh-yis-ra-EL el-a-mats-ya-HU ME-lekh-ye-hu-DA le-MOR ha-KHO-akh a-SHER bal-le-va-NON sha-LAKH el-ha-E-rez a-SHER bal-le-va-NON le-MOR te-NA-et-BIT-te-kha liv-NI le-ish-SHA va-ta-a-VOR kha-YAT ha-sa-DE a-SHER bal-le-va-NON va-tir-MOS et-ha-KHO-akh
In context — 2 Chronicles 25:18
And Joash , king of Israel, sent word to Amaziah, king of Judah, saying, “In Lebanon a thistle spoke to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ But a wild animal of the field in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thistle.”
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 25:18:17 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 17 of 2 Chronicles 25:18, so the Hebrew word לְאִשָּׁ֑ה (leishsha) 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.25.18.W17, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.25.18.W17.S1) and character.