2 Chronicles 25:7:52 Chr.25.7.W5TAB
לֵאמֹ֔ר
lemor
“saying”
- Transliteration
- le-MOR
- Extended
- lee-MOHR
- IPA
- /leːˈʔmoːr/
Meaning by language
- English
- saying
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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Word in context
- word
le-MOR
- clause
ve-ISH ha-e-lo-HIM BA e-LAV le-MOR ha-ME-lekh AL-ya-VO im-me-KHA tse-VA yis-ra-EL
- sentence
ve-ISH ha-e-lo-HIM BA e-LAV le-MOR ha-ME-lekh AL-ya-VO im-me-KHA tse-VA yis-ra-EL KI EN ye-ho-VAH im-yis-ra-EL KOL be-NE ef-ra-YIM
Exegesis
The infinitive le’mor {לֵאמֹר | lē-ʾamôr} ‘to say’ functions as a purpose clause leading into direct speech, beginning with the vocative ha-melekh {הַמֶּלֶךְ | ham-mé-lek} ‘O king’.
In context — 2 Chronicles 25:7
But a man of God came to him and said, “O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel—namely, not with all the sons of Ephraim.”
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 25:7:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of 2 Chronicles 25:7, so the Hebrew word לֵאמֹ֔ר (lemor) 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.25.7.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.25.7.W5.S1) and character.