2 Chronicles 34:20:142 Chr.34.20.W14TAB
לֵאמֹֽר׃
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
- sentence
va-yet-TSAV ha-ME-lekh ET-khil-ki-YA-hu ve-ET-a-khi-KAM BEN-sha-FAN ve-ET-av-DON BEN-mi-KHA ve-ET sha-FAN ha-so-FER ve-ET a-sa-YA E-ved-ha-ME-lekh le-MOR
Exegesis
The infinitive construct lemor {לֵאמֹֽר | lē-ʾā-môr} signals the shift into direct speech or instruction. Hebrew’s string of waw-conjunctions yields a formal enumerative style, which English renders as a coordinated series to preserve clarity and the original’s emphatic listing of recipients.
Root and etymology
ʾ-m-raleph–mem–resh
“to say”
In context — 2 Chronicles 34:20
And the king commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Abdon son of Micah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the servant of the king, saying .
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 34:20:14 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 14 of 2 Chronicles 34:20, so the Hebrew word לֵאמֹֽר׃ (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.34.20.W14, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.34.20.W14.S1) and character.