2 Kings 14:23:22 Kgs.14.23.W2TAB
חֲמֵשׁ־עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה
khameshesre
“fifteen”
- Transliteration
- kha-MESH-eS-re
- Extended
- khah-MESH-ehs-REEH
- IPA
- /ħăˈmeːʃ.ʕɛsˈreː/
Meaning by language
- English
- fifteen
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
kha-MESH-eS-re
- phraseyour reading level
kha-MESH-eS-re sha-NA
- clause
bish-NAT kha-MESH-eS-re sha-NA la-a-mats-ya-HU ben-yo-ASH ME-lekh ye-hu-DA
- sentence
bish-NAT kha-MESH-eS-re sha-NA la-a-mats-ya-HU ben-yo-ASH ME-lekh ye-hu-DA ma-LAKH ya-rav-AM ben-yo-ASH ME-lekh-yis-ra-EL be-SHO-me-RON ar-ba-IM ve-a-KHAT sha-NA
Exegesis
The verse opens with the temporal prepositional clause bishnat {בִּשְׁנַת֙ | biš-šāṯ} “in the year of” followed by the ordinal khamesh-esreh {חֲמֵשׁ־עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה | ḥămêš-‘eśrê} + shanah {שָׁנָ֔ה | šānâ} “fifteenth year.”
Root and etymology
ע־שׂ־ר
“ten”
In context — 2 Kings 14:23
In the fifteenth year of Amaziah son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel, began to reign in Samaria; he reigned forty-one years.
About this coordinate
2 Kings 14:23:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of 2 Kings 14:23, so the Hebrew word חֲמֵשׁ־עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה (khameshesre) 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.14.23.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.14.23.W2.S1) and character.