2 Kings 14:16:62 Kgs.14.16.W6TAB

עִ֖ם

im

with

Transliteration
IM
Extended
IHM
IPA
/ʕim/

Meaning by language

English
with

Alphabet Analysis

Ayindeep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Mem Sofitfinal form of Mem — at word end

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Word in context

  1. word

    IM

  2. clause

    va-yish-KAV ye-ho-ASH im-a-VO-taiv va-yik-KA-VER be-SHO-mer-ron IM mal-KHEI yis-ra-EL

  3. sentence

    va-yish-KAV ye-ho-ASH im-a-VO-taiv va-yik-KA-VER be-SHO-mer-ron IM mal-KHEI yis-ra-EL va-yim-LOKH ya-ra-VAM be-NO takh-TAV

Exegesis

The idiom im avotav {עִם־אֲבֹתָיו | ʿim-āvoṯāw} euphemizes death by placing the king with his predecessors.

In context2 Kings 14:16

And Jehoash lay down with his fathers and was buried in Samaria among the kings of Israel. Then Jeroboam his son assumed the kingship in his place .

About this coordinate

2 Kings 14:16:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of 2 Kings 14:16, so the Hebrew word עִ֖ם (im) 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.14.16.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.14.16.W6.S1) and character.