2 Kings 13:7:202 Kgs.13.7.W20TAB
לָדֻֽשׁ׃
ladush
“for threshing”
- Transliteration
- la-DUSH
- Extended
- lah-DOOSH
- IPA
- /laːˈduʃ/
Meaning by language
- English
- for threshing
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Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Dalet | d as in door | |
| Qibbuts | short 'oo' as in food | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot |
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The word
Word in context
- word
la-DUSH
- clause
KI ib-be-DAM ME-lekh a-RAM va-ye-si-MEM ke-a-FAR la-DUSH
- sentence
KI LO hish-e-IR li-ye-ho-a-KHAZ AM KI im-kha-mi-SHIM pa-ra-SHIM va-a-sa-RA RE-khev va-a-SE-ret a-la-FIM rag-LI KI ib-be-DAM ME-lekh a-RAM va-ye-si-MEM ke-a-FAR la-DUSH
Exegesis
The vav-consecutive imperfect wayyĕsimêm {וַיְשִׂמֵם | wa-yĕ-si-mêm} ‘and he made them’ governs the simile kĕ-ʿāp̄ār lā-duš {כֶּעָפָר לָדֻשׁ | kĕ-ʿā-p̄ār lā-duš} ‘like dust to be trampled’, a vivid idiom signifying total ruin. The English structure maintains the causal progression and places the climactic simile at the end for emphasis.
Root and etymology
Rootd-w-š
“thresh, trample”
In context — 2 Kings 13:7
For the king of Aram did not leave any people for Jehoahaz except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers; for the king of Aram destroyed them and made them like the dust to be trampled.
About this coordinate
2 Kings 13:7:20 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 20 of 2 Kings 13:7, so the Hebrew word לָדֻֽשׁ׃ (ladush) 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 Kgs.13.7.W20, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.13.7.W20.S1) and character.