2 Chronicles 34:21:202 Chr.34.21.W20TAB
לֹא־שָׁמְר֤וּ
loshameru
“did not keep”
- Transliteration
- lo-sha-me-RU
- Extended
- loh-shah-meh-ROO
- IPA
- /loːʃaːməˈruː/
Meaning by language
- English
- did not keep
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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Word in context
- word
lo-sha-me-RU
- phraseyour reading level
AL a-SHER lo-sha-me-RU a-vo-te-NU
- clause
ki-ge-do-LA kha-mat-ye-ho-VAH a-SHER nit-te-KHA VA-nu AL a-SHER lo-sha-me-RU a-vo-te-NU et-de-VAR ye-ho-VAH la-a-SOT ke-khol-hak-ka-TUV al-has-SE-fer haz-ZE
- sentence
le-KHU dir-SHU et-ye-ho-VAH ba-a-DI u-ve-AD han-nish-AR be-yis-ra-EL u-vi-hu-DA al-div-RE has-SE-fer a-SHER nim-TSa ki-ge-do-LA kha-mat-ye-ho-VAH a-SHER nit-te-KHA VA-nu AL a-SHER lo-sha-me-RU a-vo-te-NU et-de-VAR ye-ho-VAH la-a-SOT ke-khol-hak-ka-TUV al-has-SE-fer haz-ZE
Exegesis
The clause “our fathers did not guard the word of the LORD by doing everything written in this book” uses lo-shamru {לֹא־שָׁמְרוּ | lō-šāmarū} ‘did not keep’ with the infinitive la’asot k’khol ha-katuv {לַעֲשׂוֹת כְּכָל־הַכָּתוּב | laʿă·śôt kᵊ·ḵāl-ha-ḵā·tûḇ} ‘to do according to all that is written’. This syntactic chain underscores covenantal duty and grounds divine judgment in written obligation.
Root and etymology
Rootsh-m-r
“to guard, keep, observe”
In context — 2 Chronicles 34:21
Go, inquire of the LORD on my behalf and on behalf of the remnant in Israel and Judah regarding the contents of the book that was discovered, for the LORD’s wrath is great and has been poured out on us, because our fathers did not guard the word of the LORD by doing everything written in this book.
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 34:21:20 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 20 of 2 Chronicles 34:21, so the Hebrew word לֹא־שָׁמְר֤וּ (loshameru) 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.34.21.W20, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.34.21.W20.S1) and character.