2 Kings 14:6:202 Kgs.14.6.W20TAB
ימות
yamut
“he shall die”
- Transliteration
- ya-MUT
- Extended
- yah-MOOT
- IPA
- /jaˈmuːt/
Meaning by language
- English
- he shall die
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Tav | t as in top |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ya-MUT
- phraseyour reading level
ya-MUT yu-MAT
- clause
ka-ka-TUV be-SE-fer to-RAT-mo-SHE a-SHER-tsi-VA Ye-ho-VAH le-MOR LO-yu-me-TU a-VOT al-ba-NIM u-va-NIM LO-yu-me-TU al-a-VOT KI im-ISH be-khe-TO ya-MUT yu-MAT
- sentence
ve-ET-be-NEI ha-ma-KIM LO he-MIT ka-ka-TUV be-SE-fer to-RAT-mo-SHE a-SHER-tsi-VA Ye-ho-VAH le-MOR LO-yu-me-TU a-VOT al-ba-NIM u-va-NIM LO-yu-me-TU al-a-VOT KI im-ISH be-khe-TO ya-MUT yu-MAT
Exegesis
The final doublet yamut yumat {ימות יוּמָת | yāmûṯ yūmāt} intensifies the legal certainty: the guilty one faces death specifically as judicial execution.
Root and etymology
consonantsmem–vav–tav
“to die”
In context — 2 Kings 14:6
But the sons of the killers he did not put to death, as written in the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD commanded, saying, “Fathers shall not be put to death for sons, and sons shall not be put to death for fathers; but a man, for his own sin, shall die; he shall be put to death.”
About this coordinate
2 Kings 14:6:20 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 20 of 2 Kings 14:6, so the Hebrew word ימות (yamut) 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.14.6.W20, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.14.6.W20.S1) and character.