2 Kings 14:4:32 Kgs.14.4.W3TAB
לֹא־סָ֑רוּ
losaru
“were not removed or turned aside”
- Transliteration
- lo-SA-RU
- Extended
- loh-saa-Roo
- IPA
- /loː.saˈruː/
Meaning by language
- English
- were not removed or turned aside
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Samekh | s as in sit | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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The word
Word in context
- word
lo-SA-RU
- clause
RAK ha-ba-MOT lo-SA-RU
- sentence
RAK ha-ba-MOT lo-SA-RU OD ha-AM me-zab-KHIM u-me-kat-RIM ba-ba-MOT
Exegesis
The negated predicate lo-saru {לֹא־סָרוּ | lō-sārû} ‘they did not turn aside’ functions idiomatically as “they were not removed,” presenting the continued existence of these sites as a settled fact.
Root and etymology
consonantssamekh–vav–resh
“turn aside, depart”
In context — 2 Kings 14:4
Only the high places were not removed ; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
About this coordinate
2 Kings 14:4:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of 2 Kings 14:4, so the Hebrew word לֹא־סָ֑רוּ (losaru) 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.14.4.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.14.4.W3.S1) and character.