2 Chronicles 34:4:92 Chr.34.4.W9TAB
גִּדֵּ֑עַ
giddea
“he cut down”
- Transliteration
- gid-DE-a
- Extended
- gihd-DEH-ah
- IPA
- /gidˈdɛː.ʕa/
Meaning by language
- English
- he cut down
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Gimel | g as in good | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father |
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The word
Word in context
- word
gid-DE-a
- clause
va-ye-nat-TSU le-fa-NAV ET miz-be-KHOT ha-be-a-LIM ve-ha-kham-ma-NIM a-SHER-le-ma-LA me-e-le-HEM gid-DE-a
- sentence
va-ye-nat-TSU le-fa-NAV ET miz-be-KHOT ha-be-a-LIM ve-ha-kham-ma-NIM a-SHER-le-ma-LA me-e-le-HEM gid-DE-a ve-ha-a-she-RIM ve-hap-se-LIM ve-ham-mas-se-KHOT shib-BAR ve-he-DAK va-yiz-ROK al-pe-NE hak-ke-va-RIM ha-zo-ve-KHIM la-HEM
Exegesis
Subsequent verbs giddēa {גִּדֵּעַ | ġiddēʿa} ‘he cut down,’ shibbar {שִׁבַּר | šibbār} ‘he broke in pieces,’ and vehedak {וְהֵדַק | wəhēdaq} ‘and made into dust’ intensify the destruction, culminating in vayizrok {וַיִּזְרֹק | wayyizrōq} ‘and he scattered.’
Root and etymology
ג־ד־עgidad
“to cut off”
In context — 2 Chronicles 34:4
And they tore down the altars of the Baals before him, cut down the incense altars that were above them, and broke in pieces the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast images, grinding them to dust; then they scattered the dust over the graves of the sacrificers .
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 34:4:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of 2 Chronicles 34:4, so the Hebrew word גִּדֵּ֑עַ (giddea) 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.34.4.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.34.4.W9.S1) and character.