2 Kings 14:6:32 Kgs.14.6.W3TAB
לֹ֣א
lo
“not”
- Transliteration
- LO
- Extended
- LOH
- IPA
- /loː/
Meaning by language
- English
- not
Alphabet Analysis
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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Word in context
- word
LO
- phraseyour reading level
LO he-MIT
- clause
ve-ET-be-NEI ha-ma-KIM LO he-MIT
- 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 negation lo {לֹא | lō} directly governs hemith {הֵמִית | hēmît} ‘he put to death’, forming a decisive denial of retaliatory practice.
Root and etymology
מ־ל־א
“messenger, one who is sent”
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 14:6:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of 2 Kings 14:6, so the Hebrew word לֹ֣א (lo) 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.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.14.6.W3.S1) and character.