2 Chronicles 35:2:32 Chr.35.2.W3TAB
עַל־מִשְׁמְרוֹתָ֑ם
almishmerotam
“over their watches or their divisions”
- Transliteration
- al-mish-me-ro-TAM
- Extended
- ahl-mihsh-meh-roh-TAAM
- IPA
- /ʕal.miʃ.məroːˈtaːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- over their watches or their divisions
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| 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 | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
al-mish-me-ro-TAM
- clause
va-ya-a-MED ha-ko-ha-NIM al-mish-me-ro-TAM
- sentence
va-ya-a-MED ha-ko-ha-NIM al-mish-me-ro-TAM va-ye-khaz-ze-KEM la-a-vo-DAT BET ye-ho-VAH
Exegesis
The bound prepositional phrase ʿal-miš-mə-rō-ṯām {עַל־מִשְׁמְרוֹתָם | ʿal-miš-mə-rō-ṯām} ‘upon their watches’ specifies the official posts.
In context — 2 Chronicles 35:2
And he stationed the priests upon their duties and strengthened them for the service of the house of the LORD .
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 35:2:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of 2 Chronicles 35:2, so the Hebrew word עַל־מִשְׁמְרוֹתָ֑ם (almishmerotam) 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.35.2.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.35.2.W3.S1) and character.